Word: sexagenarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...boarding-school went Gabriel, into the army. Jailed by his father, shot at by his profligate mother, seduced by his sister, married by a good girl, Gabriel's troubles seemed only to begin when he met Sophie de Monnier. The 21-year-old wife of a rich but devout sexagenarian, Sophie had large, black, red-rimmed eyes. When Gabriel eloped with her, his head was declared forfeit, for rape. Yet when she was captured he returned to her side just in time to prevent her taking the poison he knew she always carried with her. After four years in separate...
...reproduction since time immemorial. I don't know that any one died from the shock; but emotional disturbance was common enough, and quite real. Most of us have passed beyond this stage today. In Massachusetts recently a candidate was defeated because the opposition called him a sexagenarian; but this, I take it, is exceptional. The idea of children by choice instead of chance has made so much headway that its antagonists are now on the defensive, as one may judge from their reactions. Instead of fainting spells and partial paralysis, the term causes the adrenals to work overtime; people rage...
Hotelmen know Mr. Statler, greyling, sexagenarian, for the most human of competitors. They know that they may come to him for advice on operating their inns. They send their sons to train in his hotels-the Hotels Statler of Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis, the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. They count on easy entree to the Hotel Statler now abuilding on Park Square, Boston. He conceals his affairs so little, that he often, without forethought has exposed to strangers confidential reports on which his associates have spent hours of labor. Yet he does not thereby endanger the success...