Word: octogenarians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away while gendarmes shooed off the girls-Miss France of 1954, Miss France of 1955. and Miss Paris of 1955. Said Family Man Wagner: "Well, that's Paris." Father's Home Town. In Paris the mayor shopped, dined with the Duchess of Westminster, assured Octogenarian Sir Charles Mendl that he looked younger than ever, and delighted French haberdashers by wearing a pleated shirt with his dinner jacket. He was impressed with Paris' anti-horn-honking regulation, but feared that such a rule could not be enforced in New York without extra police...
...Clarksburg, W. Va., on April 13, the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, and he became one of his country's staunchest advocates of the democracy of Jefferson. As a West Virginia attorney Davis once joined Socialist Eugene V. Debs in defending the United Mine Workers' firebrand organizer, Octogenarian "Mother" Mary Jones, on charges of inciting a riot in a coal strike...
...before I knew what was happening, he slapped my face and hit me." Berwyn's story: "He tried to shoot me. He kicked me in the groin. In trying to restrain him, I accidentally poked him in the eye." Of one thing there was no doubt: Octogenarian Macfadden sported a fancy purple shiner...
...last directors' meeting, in Grand Rapids, the scales tipped against Sewell Avery. By a 5-to-4 vote, directors jacked up the dividend rate and ousted the fuming octogenarian. The man who lined up the opposition and became the new president: W. R. Murphy, 30, son of Waldo Murphy...
...times, Author Gary allows his brilliance to run away with his common sense, and in overstating his case he undercuts it. But, for all that, he has a way with words, and he tells a long story with enough immediacy and warmth to recall the salad days to an octogenarian...