Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maggie, the oldest, capable and devoted, got precious little help from moony-spoony May, the Campion beauty, or from butter-fingered Lily who couldn't say boo to a goose. But she scrimped and saved and cooked, gave up the lover who would have carried her off to South America, sent Victor to Harvard, petted him when he flunked out and came home to loaf, feet on fender, in wait for a suitable business position and in self-pitying anguish over the rebuff a New York bud had given his rustic advances. While the rest of the country freed...
...games, fireworks, rifle contests. Admirals Coontz and S. S. Robinson will reciprocate with a reception and dance on the Pennsylvania, luncheons on the Seattle, dinners and dances on the California. The Seattle, flagship of the combined fleet, will also hold a party celebrating its 19th birthday. She is the oldest ship making the cruise...
...that Mrs. Gershwin detected any seeds of musical talent in her grubby young son. Se bought the piano because her sister-in-law had one. There it stood, big and shiny; it had cost a lot of money, and no one in the Gershwin family-not even Ira, the oldest, who was certainly a smart boy- could make music on it. George would have to learn. For some time the neighbors suffered; then they advised him to study in Europe. His first teacher died when he was still torturing Chopin's preludes. Max Rosen, famed violinist, told...
Last week, one of the few of this venerable class announced its passing. Founded in 1764, The Quebec Daily Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, oldest paper in Canada, published without interruption for 161 years, quietly disappeared. The cause: merger...
...Salem College (Salem, W. Va.), the oldest senior graduated was John Franklin Brown, 75, who took his A.B., made plans for post-graduate work and a faculty position at his alma mater...