Word: sixtyish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Daughter of a Canadian, widow of an Englishman (Clayton Glyn, J. P.), sister of a onetime London-Manhattan modiste (Lady Duff-Gordon), sixtyish, still handsome, Elinor Glyn has always exuded a faintly Hearstian phosphorescence. Considering herself a feline type, she strews her house in London, Paris, Hollywood with tiger and leopard skins, keeps two Persian cats who understand, she says, everything that is said to them. She and her sister as débutantes in London were famed for their brilliant wardrobe, much of it designed and made by themselves. Elinor Glyn began to write as a girl when...
...supposed to have tasted everything prepared for her husband several hours before he ate it), she arose from public anonymity in a magnificent Moscow funeral. Last week Correspondent Barnes stood at the door of a classroom and watched Son Vasya wave his hand anxiously at his motherly-looking, sixtyish grammar teacher for a chance to recite. Not until late in the lesson did she call on him. Then he answered correctly in a bashful voice, hastily sat down. Vasya is in the fifth grade (equivalent of a U. S. seventh grade) while his seven-year-old sister Svetlana...
...York Musicians Emergency Fund in the outdoor theatre of Sleepy Hollow Country Club, at Scarborough. Soprano Lola Monti-Gorsey as lolanthe, Bass-Baritone Vasily Romakoff as the king, easily outdid a strident chorus of autumn katydids, sang their roles with grace and finesse. Guest of honor was sixtyish. grey-haired Margaret Eichenwald, who was coached for the role of lolanthe at its premiere by Tchaikovsky, now teaches voice at the Vocal Studio in Manhattan. The other was the conductor, Eugene Plotnikoff. In 1893, as 'cellist in the Imperial Orchestra, he heard a messenger break up a rehearsal of lolanthe...
...Exposition now stands, were "made" by ashes and earth carted off for disposal by the tunnel freight system and dumped along the lake front. Despite all this the tunnel system went upon the rocks in 1912, had to be reorganized. Sherman Weld Tracy, former railroad man, then fortyish, now sixtyish and grey-haired, was put in charge. Since then he has kept the tunnels out of receivership but it is no secret that they have never been a very profitable venture. Meantime Ogden Armour and E. H. Harriman are dead. Their widows are today two of Mr. Tracy...
...Banister, smart, vivacious, blue-eyed and sixtyish, is the second woman to get an upper berth in the Treasury from President Roosevelt. The first was Nellie Tayloe Ross, onetime Governor of Wyoming, now Director of the Mint...