Word: sixtyish
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...Catherine O'Brien, sixtyish, has been a good Catholic all her life. One day last week she was making the beds in a room at the New York Athletic Club, where she has worked for 40 years, when two frozen-faced young men came softly in behind her and demanded her keys. They wanted to get in Room No. 1903, across the hall, they whispered. When Mrs. O'Brien asked why, one of the soft-snarling men stuck a revolver against her apron. Mrs. O'Brien put her hand in her apron pocket where she kept...
After her station wagon cracked into a car near Redlands, Calif., as she headed for a desert holiday, plump, sixtyish Cinemactress Mary Boland was hospitalized with fractured ribs, dislocated hip, gashed head...
...shiny new super-highway the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania paid not one cent. The Turnpike Commission, appointed by Democratic Governor George Earle, got $29,250,000 from PWA, and a $40,800,000 loan from RFC. Tough, driving, sixtyish Walter Adelbert Jones, commission chairman, set a construction deadline at July 1, 1940 (to get the PWA grant), sent "cats" and bulldozers racing over Appalachian slopes like Nazi tanks in the Ardennes, ordered concrete flushed over roadbeds that had been given scarcely the winter to settle. The road was completed in 21 months. There was no fanfare this week as the Pennsylvania...
First woman passenger ever to fly in an airplane was Edith Ogilvy Druce. (Date: Oct. 7, 1908. Place: Le Mans, France. Machine: a bamboo and piano-wire biplane. Position: seated in front of the wings. Pilot: Wilbur Wright. Duration: 3 min. Altitude reached: 97 ft.) Last week Expatriate Druce, sixtyish, two days after returning to the U. S., took her second flight as a guest of American Airlines in a modern transport plane over New York City. As a stewardess helped her into an armchair aboard the airliner, she called to the pilot: "Not too high...
...dabbling with radio tricks and sound effects, in a Saturday night play series specializing in "emotional conflict." To last Saturday's, NBC paid special attention, giving a full hour for the first time, and using the NBC symphony orchestra for the first time in a dramatic show. Reason: sixtyish Alia Nazimova, Stanislavsky-trained, Ibsenite and cinema siren, had been won to radio...