Word: septuagenarian
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When Britain's Eighth Army entered Tunis in May 1943, a gaunt, saturnine figure, who looked like an unshaved cardinal, popped out of a hideout in the Italian quarter. He was France's most discussed, most influential man of letters, septuagenarian Novelist Andre Paul Guillaume Gide. German patrols, Gide explained, had captured a copy of his latest, frankest journal of events and he had been in hiding for a month. He soon buttonholed an Eighth Army photographer, plunged into an enthusiastic discussion of pre-Nazi German poetry...
Sellers' Markets. In Kansas City, a railroad pondered a request from a septuagenarian who wrote that he had had two operations, enclosed his hospital bill as proof, declared he could not abide another blizzard, prayed that the railroad would allow him a reservation to Florida. In Birmingham, Mich., Mrs. Richard J. Coveney put an ad in the paper for a maid "to live in, $15 a day. No cooking, cleaning, serving or laundry. . . . Loan of mink coat Thursdays and Sunday. Two children but mistress will take care of them. Maid's duties to answer door and telephone...
Judge Charles Henry Cooper, 70-year-old father of Cinemactor Gary Cooper. The draft board that sent him his induction notice discovered it had summoned the wrong Charles Henry Cooper when the septuagenarian strode in and cried: "Well, here I am; when do I leave...
...Capetown a woman who had given birth to a baby two hours before pushed her doctor aside and rode by taxi to vote. In Durban another woman arrived by ambulance, was carried on a stretcher into the polling hall. In Smuts's own constituency, Standerton, a septuagenarian Scot, recovering from a heart attack, insisted on voting for Smuts, collapsed and died before he could make his cross...
...motion to censure the censors was introduced into Eire's Senate. Uprose septuagenarian Professor of Metaphysics William Magennis of University College, Dublin, to declare for the censors, adding that "a campaign is being carried on in England, financed by American money, aimed at undermining Christianity...