Word: septuagenarian
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...joined and if disaster was at hand, nothing could prevent it from being the worst defeat that Britain ever suffered. While the leaders were facing that fact, Weygand excused himself, saying he had forgotten some papers, and nipped up two flights of stairs to his office. Churchill watched the septuagenarian Generalissimo bound upstairs and then, according to the story told last week in Paris, turned to Marshal Pétain (83) and demanded: "Do you think we should entrust the fate of our two countries to so young...
...rest of his book, begins to comfort himself and the reader with such emotional catch-phrases as "this amazing little island"; to deliver such debatable statements as "Few countries can boast as high a type of manhood as that produced by the public schools of England"; to remark, "The septuagenarian Neville Chamberlain is symbolic of the virility of the English people"; and to snort "To say that war exhausts is as much nonsense as that exercise weakens." After his long persuasions that night must fall, such whistling in the dark makes the night seem darker...
...uncertain affections, his age, his gradual loss of power ("They were planned so big and red; yetthey are small irons, and they hardly glow") he tells no less serenely. "I have followed the septuagenarian of literature step by step, and reported the progress of his disintegration." He ends his book with a quiet, magnificent diatribe which should make most readers duck, most smug old men-of-letters blush...
Died. Michael ("Mike the Hermit") Yansick, septuagenarian Pennsylvania recluse who for 20 years inhabited a cave, two feet high, on Avondale Mountain near Nanticoke, Pa.; of starvation and exposure; in his cave...
Into a San Francisco bar strolled septuagenarian, vegetarian St. Louis Estes, who has made a fortune from talks on raw food, fathered seven sons (all named St. Louis) and seven daughters (four un-named). There he made friends with an unknown couple, took them and two bottles of liquor to his Nob Hill penthouse. While he snoozed, his two guests frisked him of $3,800 and departed. His secretary explained that he had "gone into a tavern, as was his custom from time to time, in order to study human nature, mix with the lower elements, and see what...