Word: septuagenarian
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...sexual French comedy performed by excellent actors. It is tastefully done and venerable Frederick Kerr, 72, father of Geoffrey Kerr (London Calling, This is New York) gives the production a certain air of dignity. Admirers of the charming elder Kerr believe that if everybody grew up to be a septuagenarian like him, the world would be a better place. Included in the cast is Basil Rathbone (The Captive, The Command to Love), a handsome ascetic mummer. Along with Mr. Kerr, Actor Rathbone appeared in The Czarina and in the cinema Lady of Scandal. Also in the play, also fresh from...
Birthday. George Bernard Shaw, in London. Age: 73. After asking that news of his birthday be suppressed, Septuagenarian Shaw issued a message: "If anybody in the United States thinks my 73rd birthday is in any way significant, I will say I think it exceedingly indelicate...
...Septuagenarian Belasco has always considered 1859 his birth year. His sister in San Francisco discovered that 1854 is given in the city records...
...years ago, when $80,000 was owed to Mead Paper Co. of Dayton, Ohio, that company had to take over Farm Life. T. W. LeQuatte, onetime editor of very successful Successful Farming, was brought in, made publisher. Founder Taylor, septuagenarian, retired, soon was put in the hands of a guardian. But still advertisers could not forget Farm Life's mushroom-growth circulation. Last week Publisher LeQuatte announced that unless $25,000 were raised immediately, the subscription list would be sold and Farm Life would enter bankruptcy, or would be reorganized...
England's aristocratically somnolent House of Lords last week swallowed up another British Socialist,* Rt. Hon. Sidney Webb, hale septuagenarian, world-famed political economist (Fabianism). Statesmen, educators, students who for almost 40 years have known the plain name of Sidney Webb as a synonym for scholarly and philosophically radical Socialism, will not soon be accustomed to his new Socialist title, "Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner" (after his estate in Hampshire). Unfamiliar with his new position and decidedly uncomfortable in it seemed Sidney Webb, last week, as he entered the House of Lords and went through the ceremony of becoming...