Word: sexagenarian
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...apparently never occurred to Isaac, sexagenarian son of Abraham, that Rebekah, big with twins after 20 years' barrenness, might have half betrayed him when she conceived shaggy, ruddy Esau and sleek, swarthy Jacob. Wiser in rustic folkways, Ewald Peddie, Yankton. S. Dak. farmer, taxed his wife with infidelity when she bore him twin sons who were in his eyes as different as Esau and Jacob. She admitted bedding with a neighbor. Everyone to whom Farmer Peddie talked declared that the idea of twins having different fathers was scientifically preposterous. For six years his suspicion of divided paternity rankled. Finally...
...evening, develops a personality that is persuasive. She has lines which would tax the powers of many screen stars, such as "Ah, I want only the sky, the sea, the earth, simple things," and on the whole emerges unscathed. Harry Hutchinson '33 does an excellent impersonation of a sexagenarian. John Cromwell '36 and J. R. Yungblut '35 also sustained important parts in the production with professional skill. The sets were very realistic and were cleverly handled for seven changes of scene. The Dramatic Club has brought forth another play that deserves large audiences at the remaining performances this week...
...last month droned the account of Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget's "most extrawd'nry" experience in that bathroom and his clever solution of the mystery, which he promptly reported to Nature. Few men in England could have resolved the matter so promptly as did this inquisitive sexagenarian baronet, barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician. Sir Richard's musical ear told him that the tune he heard that evening was in E major, with A sharp substituted for A flat. "The melody," he relates, "did not slur up & down as when the wind whistles through a cranny, but changed...
...Berlin an ambitious, shrewd sexagenarian last week asked the public insurance fund to pay for a Steinach reactivation operation upon him. His chief plea was that old age is a common ailment.* Astounded insurance executives fubbed off the old man's demands. To grant them would set a precedent which would upset all their mortality calculations...
...Then a sexagenarian came and described how Angèle had come to him for money. And one night the customers at the restaurant exchanged obscene impressions. Now he knew he must be very distasteful to her since, definitely a prostitute, she had turned down only himself. He climbed into her bedroom after midnight, but she was sleeping elsewhere. In the morning he found her, took her to the river bank, twisted her arm to make her admit he disgusted her. She began screaming shrilly in terror and in equal terror he began beating her over the face with a convenient...