Word: oldsters
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...Levy 3L, while making nine miscues in the field, starred at the bat with a home run with bases loaded. The oldster's pitchers, while long upheld by sparkling work in the field, finally succumbed to a barrage of circuit clouts in the last few innings, which knocked F. A. Watson 3L, the former Redlands college hurler...
Left to head the Labor Party in Parliament (unless a "safe seat" is found for Mr. Henderson at a by-election) were a shrewd oldster and a smart youngster...
...Oldster George Lansbury, when Commissioner of Works, built so many bright orange public bath houses that his London slum constituency returned him to Parliament last week despite the Conservative landslide...
...expressed in generations. There is the proud old immigrant group, slowly diminishing, which lives strictly in the tradition of its fathers. Through it the great Yiddish language dailies (Forward, Day, Morning Journal) wield their power. A second generation (roughly preWar) shied away from the piety and solidarity of the oldster. To it the selfconscious, defensive Jewish weeklies address themselves. Many students profess to see now the beginning of a third generation, youthful and intelligent, proud but inquiring, race-conscious but dispassionate. For that group, and for inquisitive non-Jews, was designed The Current Jewish Record which made its first appearance...
Suddenly the little skirmish at Slonta became international news. Rome jubilated. Back at headquarters it was discovered that the oldster was none other than the great Senussi chieftain Omar el Muktar, bravest and most implacable of Italy's native foemen...