Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average youngster is sick in bed seven days of the year, the average oldster 35 days...
...Guaranty had paid two preferred dividends of 15? and 10? a share, aggregating approximately $750,000. More than 3,000 letters testified to the gratitude of stockholders. One woman had her roof fixed with the $2.50 she received, took her dishpan back to the kitchen at last. One oldster of 94 years found 80? reason enough to thank God and Murphy...
...Orleans' teeming Charity Hospital two destitute farmer-patients, John Wesley Amos, 68, and Frank Chabina, 19, found that they also had in common blindness in their left eyes. Quicklime had seared the youth's, cataract bleared the oldster's. Last week old John Wesley Amos told Charity Hospital eye surgeons: "Frank's been very good to me. Not many young fellows would bother to cheer up an old man like the way Frank's done. If you figure one of my eyes can help Frank see, I want you to take my eye and give...
Representative Joseph Jefferson Mansfield of Columbus, Tex. is one of the two members of Congress who operate in wheel chairs.* A gentle, mild-mannered oldster of 76, who has been paralyzed since 1921, Congressman Mansfield created a furor in 1932 when he rolled himself down to the rostrum to sign a petition to discharge the Judiciary Committee from further consideration of a proposal to modify the 18th Amendment, and thus bring it to the floor. His was the 145th signature which the petition needed to become effective, a coincidence by which Congressman Mansfield professed to be greatly surprised. Last week...
...famed and fiery Wartime Prime Minister William Morris Hughes, who at the Versailles Peace Conference was among those chiefly instrumental in having Imperial Germany despoiled of her colonies, has now at the age of 73 been made Australian Minister for External Affairs. Cocked & primed this week was oldster Hughes, ready to dash to London and explode with Australian wrath...