Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clustered close drew the three comrades, with Death at their elbows, and as the oldest rose totteringly he spoke in a voice audible only for a few feet. Peter Hall, 88, whispered faintly: "We are getting older, and our ailments increasing, and feebleness and weakness make it difficult ... to meet much longer. . . ." He proposed a "last three club" or a "last two club...
Died. Joseph Murray, 82, one-time mentor of Colonel Roosevelt and an assistant immigration commissioner in 1902; at New York. Died. Robert Todd Lincoln, 83, oldest and only living son of President Lincoln; at his home in Manchester, Vt. He (TIME, Dec. 7, POLITICAL NOTES) witnessed the assassinations of three Presidents (his father, Garfield, McKinley). He served as Secretary of War, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and president of the Pullman Company...
...disintegrated Washington club, American League champions for the last two years, has been barely able to clamber out of the second half of the league. The team is surfeited with old men, retaining by far the oldest aggregation in either league, their average ages being 32. The Chicago Americans are the youngest team making any showing this year. Last year's world champions, the Pittsburgh Pirates, average 29 years. Commonly supposed to be a young team, the Philadelphia Athletics are in reality far remote from puberty. Babe Adams, 44, is the oldest player in either league and still pitches...
...everyone knows, Mr. Smith's task, though sufficiently arduous, was greatly facilitated by the fact that he had relatively few intriguing politicians to deal with. He received consistent co-operation from the virtually dictatorial regime of Regent Admiral Horthy and Premier Bethlen whose Ministry is today the oldest in Europe. (Formed June...
Died. Charles E. Fuller, 77, second oldest member of the House of Representatives; at Rochester [Mayo], Minn., of cancer...