Word: oldish
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Vieux soldat, vieil imbecile-so say the French, but not of Foch. Though an oldish soldier (62) when the War began, he became before its close France's symbol and stimulant of undefeat. "The Man of Orleans," as Biographer Hart subtitles him, filled the role of national redeemer when the Kaiser was Satan and when, for a four-year wink of the Divine eye, God was French...
...would not be paying fancy prices this season to hear Lily Pons. The Zenatellos brought Lily Pons to Manhattan, got her an audition at the Metropolitan Opera House. Three months after her sensational debut (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931), Lily Pons abruptly left the hotel suite which she and her oldish Dutch husband shared with the Zenatellos. She cancelled her contract to pay them 15% of her earnings, discharged them as her agents...
...nice, oldish gentleman of short stature with silky white hair and keen blue eyes opened the Canadian Parliament at Ottawa last week, read loud and clear the "Speech from the Throne" of absent George...
Never before had this been done by a man not sent from beyond the seas by His Majesty. The nice, oldish gentleman is 100% Canadian: Mr. Justice Lyman Poore Duff of Canada's Supreme Court...
With a cavalry escort, with the guard of honor of a viceroy, Judge Duff whirled up Parliament Hill. For him the brass band of the footguards played "God Save the King." In legal fiction the nice, oldish gentleman was the King. It was the most exciting day of his life...