Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Focus of all this celebration was a vigorous, severely dressed oldster, whose polished, monolithic head rose above an oversized collar. For many hours he stood patiently erect-with a curious bearing of rustic urbanity and retiring self assurance -receiving the congratulations of state officials, municipal leaders, foreign envoys and friends. At the concert all eyes were upon his rugged figure as he sat, with his small, dapper wife, between the President and the Field Marshal. Though urged, he declined to make a speech. Even when Finland's Premier, Dr. Kivimaki, addressing the great audience, presented him with a laurel...
...light of their decisions the three conservatives on the bench at least constitute a cohesive minority united by their profound faith in the rights of Capital. They are in the order of their appointment: James Clark McReynolds (1914), Woodrow Wilson's onetime Attorney-General, a peppery oldster of 75 who mortally fears tobacco smoke; George Sutherland (1922), a onetime (1905-17) Utah Senator, who was one of the four Justices Warren Harding appointed in two years; and Pierce Butler (1922), the bench's only Catholic, a onetime railroad corporation lawyer...
...voiced abandonment of traditional U. S. isolationism at Chicago three weeks ago was the gentle, tutorial lisp of Cordell Hull, believe also that Pupil Roosevelt spoke more strongly than his adviser intended. Carefully avoiding expressions like "quarantine" and "concerted effort," whose use by the President jolted many a diplomat, Oldster Hull gave his measured definition of a changing U. S. foreign policy...
China. The first skull of Peking Man was found in 1929 in limestone caves at Choukoutien, 20 mi. from Peiping. This apish oldster is now generally conceded to be 1,000,000 years old, most ancient of known human fossils. Last summer, two days before Sino-Japanese fighting broke out in north China, a native workman employed by the Rockefeller-endowed diggers at Choukoutien turned up an upper jawbone of Peking Man, containing six teeth. This was the first upper jawbone, although several skulls and lower jawbones had been found before. The new find was got safely to a museum...
...Gorilla Jones five years ago on a foul, is recognized by the International Boxing Union, but the New York State Athletic Commission, and the National Boxing Association recognize Tacoma's Freddy Steele. This dilemma Promoter Jacobs resolved to his satisfaction. He imported Champion Thil, bullnecked, bulging-shouldered athletic oldster of 33, bald on his head but well furred on chest and back. By matching him not against Champion Steele but against the No.1 U. S. challenger, San Francisco's Fred Apostoli, Mike Jacobs left the way clear for another championship bout. Boxer Apostoli won half of the first...