Word: greybeard
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...with 81 eventful years. His death came as no surprise. On May 12, while on his way to receive the credentials of Canada's first Minister to China, venerable Lin Sen suffered a stroke. Since then, while Buddhists, Mohammedans and Christians alike prayed for his recovery, the gentle greybeard had lain half-paralyzed...
...York greybeard ordered the whole stock of suits a Fifth Avenue firm had in his size. Another man tried to buy all the size-32 shorts in a store. A girl bought 27 pairs of white cotton gloves...
Bernard Berenson is a frail, spirited, punctilious greybeard of 73 and a U. S. citizen. His life has been such a courtship of opportunity by intelligence as only the Melting Pot is supposed to produce, and in fact it produced him. His family were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania who settled in Boston soon after the Civil War. They were poor but they thirsted for culture, and young Berenson worked himself through Boston University with an eye to a literary career. The beautiful and dashing Mrs. Jack Gardner, then engaged in setting Boston on its ear, discovered his brilliance and helped...
...inherit it later. Thereupon Elisha and his second wife marched out of their small flat in Greenwich Village, reminded his relatives of the will left in 1901 by his great-uncle, Inventor-Founder Lewis Edson Waterman. None of the Waterman clan but Elisha had remembered that this sage greybeard bequeathed 60% of the fountain-pen stock to Frank Dan Waterman with the proviso that on his death it go to Elisha. Said Elisha last week as he became executive vice president and director: "It is quite clear that my great-uncle meant me to be his ultimate heir...
Amazed were greybeard fishermen of Hampstead and Wilmington, N. C., last week, by the fatback '"miracle" of nearby Topsail Inlet. The menhaden, or fatback, is a herring-like fish, not usually eaten but valuable for oil and manure. It grows to about 18 inches, feeds on microscopic sea life, breeds near shore in enormous shoals...