Word: octogenarian
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Father Danforth went to Eugene Field's octogenarian widow, who repeatedly turned him down. Finally Father Danforth learned that there had been much jealousy between the families of Eugene Field and his brother Roswell, a lesser writer. By suggesting that he might move Roswell field's body to his church, Rector Danforth so moved Widow Field that at last she consented to the transfer. Poet Field's remains were placed in a handsome granite tomb in the Holy Comforter garden. Father Danforth acquired some Fieldiana, including the poet's wedding ring, put up two tablets...
...longer foolproof himself. Despite some brilliant thrusts, he bumbles on far too long, says far too little. More of his ideas are old than new, more of his jokes forced than funny. But what Dr. Johnson said of women preaching is also true of octogenarian play writing: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done...
...primary fact which must be grasped in any discussion of a library, university libraries especially, is that it is a service institution. It exists solely to satisfy the needs and the desires of the University members, who range from timid freshmen to octogenarian professors. Yet the source of a university library's existence is also the source of its undoing. For the library staff must solve the problem of serving distinctly separate portions of that membership whose interests are as widely divergent as those of the freshman and the professor...
...snow-haired, weeping octogenarian Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison on pension ($6,000) after 43 years of service, replaced him with 45-year-old President George Meany of the New York State Federation of Labor...
...sides, delivered American wheat in his ships, and built up a spy service that was available to all comers. Some of his profits went into Majorcan real estate, some into the National Sugar Trust. By the time the Spanish revolution broke in 1936 this grasping old man, now an octogenarian, had so compounded his World War profits that he was able to lend General Franco at least $50,000,000, according to an estimate printed last April in the New York Times...