Word: octogenarian
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Henry Ford threw down the gauntlet to a gossip columnist. Merry-Go-Rounder Drew Pearson had broadcast that 80-year-old Ford is not up to his job. Cried the wiry octogenarian: "I can lick him in anything he suggests. I never felt better in my life. I don't know how old or young this Pearson person is, or what shape he's in or what he has ever done in the way of athletics. But I'll meet him." Forty-five-year-old Pearson suggested a race-"with any vehicle, foot, bicycle, or Model...
...Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, titian-topped Countess Renée Maeterlinck told how she got her husband, octogenarian Belgian dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck, to write the memoirs he will publish next autumn: "I trap him as a cat would a mouse. I ask him questions. I make him answer me. Then pretty soon he's writing a book...
...lavish, enormous Santa Monica, Calif, beach house of ex-Film Star Marion Davies he talked with friends, read congratulatory messages, played his daily hour of tennis. (Hearst tennis compares unfavorably with that of Octogenarian King Gustaf V of Sweden: no one ever keeps score; Hearst covers the court only to arm's length each way and it is taken for granted that the ball must be hit within his reach.) Birthday dinner guests were Marion Davies, four Hearst sons and their wives, a handful of Hearst publishers, Movie Columnist Louella Parsons, ex-Georgian Prince David Mdivani, Film Actor Arthur...
Sweden's bald, bushy-browed, Social Democratic Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson should have been bowling or playing bridge with Octogenarian King Gustav in the Royal Palace as was his wont. The recent elections had produced no surprises. The Government Coalition had lost moderately to the left, but had still received 94% of all the votes cast...
This year Public Welfare Minister Dr. Gustavo Baz and his wife, acting as godparents, witnessed the marriage of Octogenarian Simón Rocha and his sweetheart of these several decades-enough decades, in fact, to see the birth of 18 children. One of Simón Rocha's grandsons was married at the same time...