Word: sixtyish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Happy Days takes place in the midst of an expanse of scorched grass; the stage is to reflect the "maximum of simplicity and symmetry." There are only two characters: the dumpy, 50-year-old Winnie, and her impotent, sixtyish mate Willie. But the talpine Willie has very little to say or to do; and thus the play is essentially a long monologue by Winnie. When all else fails, she's got her logorrhea to keep her warm...
...Dunganstown, where Patrick Kennedy came from, the President found Cousin Mary Ryan, sixtyish, and her two daughters waiting for him. Their little farm had been transformed only a few days before: the dirt yard had been laid with concrete, and plumbers had installed an indoor bathroom (wags dubbed it "John's John"). U.S. Secret Service Men literally had to use force to break the grips of hands that clutched at Kennedy. There were countless exchanges of gifts, including a sheepskin floor mat, presented to Kennedy by his cousins. "This," explained Old Family Doctor Martin Quigley...
Died. Vivian Beaumont Allen, sixtyish, bubbly socialite art patron and philanthropist, daughter of May Co. Department Store Mogul Joseph Shoenberg, an ardent theater angel who in 1958 donated $3,000,000 toward the $8,500,000 cost of the 1,100-seat repertory theater destined for Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...hear an epigram drop at 50 paces.' The plot seems unpromising. Will bumbly Sexagenarian Hugh Peronett find Indian summer satisfactory with his renounced ex-mistress Emma now that his wife is dead? Will his caddish son Randall leave his long-suffering wife? And what of sensible, sixtyish Mildred Finch, who has-loved old Hugh from afar for more than 20 years...
Plied with Whisky. The Hard Life's crazy old man is Mr. Collopy, a sixtyish sack of Biblical malapropisms whose ruling passion is a campaign to get the Dublin City Corporation to install public rest rooms for women. The book's narrator-a boy named Finnbar- and his older brother Manus come to live with the old man as orphans aged five and ten. In nightly colloquy at Collopy's, the boys listen as a forbearing Jesuit priest, Father Fahrt, is plied with Kilbeggan whisky and tried by his host's assaults on the Society...