Word: oldest
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...meet was part of the annual triangle debate, the oldest intercollegiate forensic event in the country...
There is one thing to be said for golf. It gave the Oldest Member (alias P.G. Wodehouse, 92 and still spinning yarns on the clubhouse terrace) an excuse to look up from his lemonade and variously celebrate valor at the ninth-hole water hazard and the triumph of love over a fifteen handicap. These 31 stories, a Masters tournament of golfing tales, stretch gloriously from The Clicking of Cuthbert (1916) to Sleepy Time (1968) and pass such milestones as The Heart of a Goof and The Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh...
...says Wodehouse, are about to become as rare-not to say mythological-as Scottish golfing champions themselves. It is rumored that golf is less "a thing of the spirit" than it once was. Given such commercial-calamitous times, golfers and nongolfers alike must swiftly turn for solace to The Oldest Member. Who better than Wodehouse can guard against creeping greed and gallopping solemnity, on the page or on the fairway...
Oscar Awards. The oldest of Hollywood's annual, institutional slapping-of-its-own-back ceremonies. Ch. 4, 10 p.m. Live...
...process," says Patrick Tisdale of Columbus, Ga., father of five adopted South Vietnamese girls. A widowed physician with five sons, Tisdale met his second wife Betty in 1967 while he was an Army doctor in Viet Nam and she was bringing supplies to an orphanage at An Loc. Their oldest girls Lien, 7, and Xuan, 8, are in second grade in Columbus and doing well in school, though they still have some trouble with English. Because schools in South Viet Nam are so overcrowded and understaffed that they are forced to hold triple sessions starting at 7 a.m., "the kids...