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...constant celestial Protectress of the Empire, can look into the hearts of wicked Japanese and warn good Japanese of their foul intentions, Prince Saionji inevitably would be one of the first to be warned. Some secret source, human or divine, tipped off Japan's Exalted Octogenarian. From his rustic villa at Okitsu in a speeding motor car Prince Saionji raced through night and snow to nearby Shizuoka where he was guarded by 100 police who kept the secret from murderous mustards...
James Ramsay MacDonald advised King George to appoint this Royal Commission in one of his last acts as Prime Minister, naming as chairman benevolent, octogenarian Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal. Sittings last week were in the half-moon-shaped, oak-paneled Council Chamber of ancient Middlesex Guildhall opposite Westminster Abbey. Acoustics were so poor that proceedings could not be heard in the gallery...
...London's charity clinics last week went a strong-smelling, matted old man who told the entry clerk that he was 80 years old. In the examining room, an interne ordered the octogenarian to be forthwith soaked and scrubbed. Cried the oldster: "Don't put me in the bath! I've never had a bath! It will kill...
...Riders. Once the general manager of all Hearstpapers. Colonel Knox today publishes the Chicago Daily News. His ambition is to live, like his father, to be over 80 but since the beginning of 1935 his speeches indicate that he would rather live in the White House than become an octogenarian. "I should be in my own eyes intellectually dishonest, if I failed to warn you! . . ." he cried recently in Topeka. "All the evil forces of corruption which are attracted by the prospect of political spoils have left the Republican fold and attached themselves to the opposition. Let them...
...column, some had appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript, some in Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine oj Verse. To conceive of the tremendous industry that could turn out 25,000 sonnets, says Mr. Untermeyer, "one must think of the author as a pundit, an immured octogenarian, devoting all his hours to the fashioning and perfecting of his flexible models." But Dr. Moore is only 31, spends his days teaching at Harvard Medical School, researching in neuropsychiatry at the Boston City and Boston Psychopathic Hospitals, carrying on private practice, fathering two sons. A semiprofessional swimmer, he competes annually...