Word: octogenarian
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...might well say that a biography of this grizzled and vigorous octogenarian would include the origins of all the major scientific inventions of the last half century. Only when his achievements are recorded do his marvelous ingenuity and ability become clear. The name Edison has grown to be synonymous with the new era, not only because of his actual results which abound in daily life, but also because of his remarkable character which has never admitted defeat and which is based on the fundamental qualities of all that is best in human nature. The younger generation offers its congratulations...
...play in which the heroine had innumerable affairs and was openly coveted by an octogenarian lecher. (The Makropoulos Secret...
Died. Henry Holt, 86, famed founder (1873) of the publishing firm which bears his name, writer of various books dealing with the cosmos and of Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor; at Manhattan, following an attack of bronchitis. On his 80th birthday, Mr. Holt said: "Any young man who drinks whisky is a fool, and any old man who doesn't is another...
...infant prodigy who lived to be an octogenarian...
...versatile Mr. Edmonds also publishes a story relating the perils of holding double-pinochle, when the holder is an octogenarian who all his life has drawn mostly nines and jacks. "The Miracle of M. Le Noir" by C. C. Abbott is De Maupassantesque, thoroughly so, and one is tempted to say satisfactorily so. But the best story of this issue, despite the title "Her Daughter's Child," and despite the fact that it illustrates the undesirability of tacking bits of Mr. Arlen's style onto a Mrs. Freeman plot, is Donald Gibbs' story of Jane Fermier's grand-daughter...