Word: oldsters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Oldster George Bernard Shaw, 77 last birthday (July 26), is tidying up his long career. Like all great writers* who have finished their race, have time to rest on their oars, Author Shaw is looking back with pardonable pride at his still effervescent wake, planning to preserve the worthier bubbles in a definitive collected edition. Still an active playwright though no longer the champion sculler he was, Shaw in his time has rowed nearly every position in the boat. He has written novels, music criticism, book reviews, theatre criticism, essays, short stories, speeches, pamphlets (of tremendous length), even- though...
Captain John W. Binks is a florid, stocky oldster who has commanded White Star boats for ten years and became master of the Olympic in 1932 with a long clear record behind him. When the liner sidled up to a Manhattan pier last week with a few scratches on her huge prow, he was too tired and confused to give a rational explanation of his first tragedy...
...saved the industry from extinction. Modern whaling dates back to Christmas Eve, 1904, when Captain Carl Anton Larsen of Sandefjord, Norway, brought the first whale oil of the season into Grytviken, a bleak whaling station on the Island of South Georgia east of Cape Horn. Captain Larsen, already an oldster in the trade, realized that whaling was doomed unless new grounds were discovered. The Arctic, hunted for centuries, was nearing exhaustion. With great difficulty he raised enough capital for an expedition to the Weddell Sea. There he found whales aplenty and within ten years the Antarctic whaling industry was employing...
...best had a primitive quality. Work from New York's Clinton Prison at Dannemora, where are housed the worst criminals, showed the influence of Convict Instructor Peter J. Curtis, a onetime sign painter, who exhibited two grinning putty-faced crones called A Bit of Scandal and an aproned oldster taking snuff. Other pictures included a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, a Burial of Christ, romantic portraits of women, Indian scenes, dying Cossacks, pigeons, Chinese junks and a group portrait of the Dutch Royal Family...
...waddles like a duck; instead of the music of the spheres, the snore of nations now regales the public ear, and even the esoteric mouthing of peripatetic anarchists on route to Union Square sound on the senile eardrum of the universe like the hum of beneficent bees to an oldster, drowsing in the hot mid-summer afternoon of life. NEMESIS...