Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall) was given the full distinction which the role offered by Sardis Lawrence, who brought out all the irony, all the spirit, and all the easy-going-live-and-let-live character of Madge's aged and indigent composer-father: the top performance of the evening. Another competent oldster was Frank Thomas as T. Rogers Holt--up from below, the "survival of the unfittest," as father Graham puts...
...Chapman tramped into Maine's woods each winter to oversee the selection and cutting of fine trees even in his 80's. In those days Maine supplied about half the trees sold in the U. S. Eastern dealers now get their best trees from Nova Scotia. After Oldster Chapman's death five years ago the moth blight settled funereally on Maine's balsam forests, nearly ruined that State's Christmas tree production...
...whom he made into sexually functioning men or women according to the dominance of male or female hormones. One girl "only shaves once a week" since Dr. Young removed a virilifying tumor from one of her ovaries. Another case was the rejuvenation (for two years) of a 48-year-oldster, achieved by castrating a Maryland criminal the instant he was certified dead by hanging: mincing and transplanting his glands...
...Leaders & Old. In the midst of the seamen's strike, nobody concerned knew the whereabouts of Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seamen's Union and for some 40 years the traditional leader of seagoing labor. The 82-year-oldster was said to have been in a sanatorium last May, but no one knew whether he was alive or dead and no one cared. His union was being run by his well-entrenched successors, old leaders who have no practical authority on the Pacific Coast and who flatly oppose the strike on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts...
California. The U. S. is strong in ancient low life but not in ancient man. The "Minnesota Maid&" (TIME, Nov. 25, 1932), first dated at 20,000 years ago and thus a likely prospect for champion U. S. oldster, was later set down by many a scientist as an "intrusion"-a polite word which experts apply to material that does not belong to the geological layer in which it is found. This year, WPA workmen digging a storm drain for Ballona Creek near Los Angeles found a human skull. Dr. Aberdeen Orlando Bowden, head of the University of Southern California...