Word: septuagenarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Martha King Reyburn, youngest daughter of President Samuel Wallace Reyburn of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan smartmart; near Innsbruck, Austria; when, suddenly swerving to avoid striking a small girl, she drove her car into a tree. Two months prior, at Ravenna, Italy, Miss Reyburn had accidentally killed a septuagenarian Italian bicyclist (TIME...
...acrobat, first footballer to score a touchdown for University of Michigan in an intercollegiate game; and Miss Katherine N. de Nancrede, of Ann Arbor. Mich., in Ann Arbor, where Mr. Pond's college class was having its 50th reunion. Architect Pond, who prides himself and takes joy in his septuagenarian handsprings and back somersaults (TIME, May 16, 1927, et seq.), said (of his marriage) : "It's the first time I ever did it. I think I ought to be pardoned because of my youth...
...Prince," said the septuagenarian, bending over broadcasting microphones, "often has to listen to long...
Died. Richard Ledger. London septuagenarian who plunged daily before breakfast into the Serpentine (muddy brooklet in Hyde Park) regardless of rain, sleet, hail, snow or ice. Instead of an overcoat he wore a paper waistcoat. He once announced: "My proudest possession is a letter from King George congratulating me upon my exceptional vigor...
...present there are one centenarian, one nonagenarian, six octogenarians and many a septuagenarian in a Senate that numbers only 96 members...