Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rose Oldster Plummer to make a desperate appeal...
...sport's greatest decade were Baseballer Babe Ruth, Golfer Bobby Jones. Prizefighter Jack Dempsey, Tennist Bill Tilden. Oldest (44) of the four, Tilden's years of supremacy began when he first won the U. S. championship in 1920.* Last week with the others all long since retired, Oldster Tilden stepped out before the winter's most socialite tennis crowd to play the season's climactic match. His opponent, in New York's Madison Square Garden, was England's Fred Perry whom Tilden has frequently called the "world's worst good player...
...expert and talkative guide and his wife cooked such bounteous dinners of venison, flapjacks and trout that the lodge grew into an immense rambling structure with 216 rooms. It had such guests as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Mark Twain, Grover Cleveland, Edward H. Harriman. When Paul Smith, an alert, erect oldster of 87 with snowy hair, a Vandyke beard and broad-brimmed hat, died in 1912 he left his three sons the largest estate in Franklin County...
Like many another outraged oldster throughout the land, Richmond Pearson Hobson sat up late in Manhattan one night last week discussing the depravity of President Roosevelt's plan to rejuvenate the Supreme Court. Most of the nation's unofficial denouncers that night were content to vent their spleen in talk, go modestly to bed. But Richmond Pearson Hobson was a professional zealot who, in 30-odd years of windy crusading against alcohol, narcotics and un-Americanism, of drumming up fears of Japanese invasion and Communist infiltration, had never forgotten that he was once...
...Justice Field's remark when, grown senile at 80, he was asked by his colleagues to resign from the Supreme Court. Refusing, he was reminded that he had once served on a committee to secure the resignation of another doddering Justice, Robert Cooper Grier. "Yes," blazed the stubborn oldster, "and it was the dirtiest deed of my whole life...