Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a woman three years his senior whose husband was away at the front. The townsfolk of Saint-Maur, reading the story of illicit passion, remembered that the young author himself had been seen often in the company of a local schoolteacher named Alice, a married woman some years older...
There was reason enough for the child, for Gaston had been able to visit his wife on furlough. But the doubts that the villagers implanted refused to vanish. When Raymond's book appeared, with its story of an adolescent who had got his older mistress with child shortly before her husband's return, Gaston's uncertainty became an incubus. He sent his son away and refused to have anything more to do with the child. Sensitive to every look askance in the village streets, he took his wife to another town and after that to still another...
...have been saying "our fathers," but of course we never think of that generation (the Joyce-Eliot-Pound one) as in any way paternal. They are just a bit older than we are, even if they have gone around being aged eagles for a very long time indeed. It is, however, a little unfair of them to criticize us for being dull. It is not to be denied that our poets are dim, even the best of them. Yet this is entirely because they have been taught from earliest childhood that Mr. Eliot believes in Tradition, and that...
...aircoach flights between Los Angeles and New York were started last week by North American Airlines, biggest (1953 revenue: $10 million) nonscheduled passenger carrier. North American (no kin to American Airlines or North American Aviation, Inc.) has bought two 307-m.p.h. Douglas DC-6Bs, will use them to replace older DC-4s in daily service. Round-trip fare: $160 v, $198 for scheduled (American, United, T.W.A.) aircoach service to the West Coast...
Felicia Delgado Gomez, by Caesarean section. Although precocious, Felicia was not the youngest child-mother in the medical records: 15 years ago a Peruvian girl, believed to be no older than five, bore a 6-lb. boy. Before she left the hospital hale and hearty at week's end, Felicia posed in bed with her baby and prized doll. ¶ A plan to make color films of patients under psychoanalysis was broached by Dr. David Shakow of the National Institute of Mental Health. Purpose: to show the films to groups of other analysts, enabling them to study each other...