Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan Sir Charles Frederick beamed sunnily. His face is blocky, cheery as a well-fed sea-lion. To admiring newspapermen he at once offered $500 for the picture of the oldest tea drinker in the U. S. He wants to compare that face with the face of Turk Zaro Agha, 154, oldest tea drinker in Europe...
Over 170 additions have been made since December 9, 1926, to the fast-growing list of books written by Harvard men, it became known in a list published in the current number of the Alumni Bulletin. The oldest alumnus to publish a work was Judge Robert Grand '73, with his "Occasional Verses". The oungest alumnus was Montgomery Major '25 with a volume of children's stories entitled "Merry Christmas Stories...
...JOHN A. STEWART ESTATE APPRAISED." Thus people were reminded of John Aikman Stewart, long known as Wall Street's oldest financier. Born in 1822, he knew most U. S. Presidents since Jackson, served Lincoln ably as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The appraisal of his net estate, filed last week, showed he had accumulated a little more than $3,700,000 in his 104 years...