Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orozco is almost a pure Spaniard. He dresses like a U. S. druggist, wears thick glasses, a huge mustache. In boyhood his left hand was blown off by a firecracker. Critics have used him as a butt for their most malicious onslaughts, attributing to him the "soul of an old prostitute," finding every vice in his drawings. Not only in Mexico has he been harassed. Once he tried to cross the border with a batch of drawings and was stopped by U. S. customs officials. They decided that the drawings were obscene and destroyed over a hundred...
...Berlin an ambitious, shrewd sexagenarian last week asked the public insurance fund to pay for a Steinach reactivation operation upon him. His chief plea was that old age is a common ailment.* Astounded insurance executives fubbed off the old man's demands. To grant them would set a precedent which would upset all their mortality calculations...
Died. Miss Josephine Crist Delmonko, last of her name to operate the old time (defunct since 1923) Manhattan restaurant which her great-grand-uncle founded; in Mount Kisco...
...HERE'S TO DEAR OLD YALE, TEAR HER DOWN, TEAR HER DOWN was the caption once run under a drawing by one Robert Osborne in the Yale Record (funny monthly). The pic ture showed a grotesque jumble of destruction out of which soared tangled fingers of new structural steel. Further tearing down of Old Yale was announced at New Haven last week. Two dormitories will be erected across the street from Harkness Quadrangle; also, more buildings for the Law School, and a medical and pediatric laboratory. The cost: some $4,350,000. . . This year Yale will have a perfect...
...Sitting once more beside Edsel Alexander Ruddiman, his oldtime desk-mate, who is now a learned chemist, Mr. Ford carved his initials on a desktop unreproved by Teacher. Although Mr. Ford is currently engaged in celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb, pupils at the old school will, for sentiment's sake, have to read by the light of oil lamps, be warmed by a wood stove, "just like Henry Ford...