Word: octogenarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Governors, had recommended a grand joint reunion of the G. A. R. and the United Veterans of the Confederacy. Richard A. Sneed, Commander-in-Chief of the U. V. C., in the first official communication ever sent by his organization to the G. A. R., had warmly acquiesced. Octogenarian John Reese of Broken Bow, Neb., Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R., exclaimed to his comrades: "It would provide a noble lesson for our children, who after all, will soon govern our nation...
Nicely pre-arranged was the ceremony of acceptance. Heading the committee was August Heckscher, octogenarian philanthropist, whose slum elimination project on the city's lower East Side Mayor Walker has helped. A change in the city administration might disturb Mr. Heck-scher's chief philanthropic hobby...
Charles Prestwich Scott, octogenarian owner of England's great Liberal daily, the Manchester Guardian, chuckled happily. He had just, last week, announced his retirement as the Guardian's editor, after 57 years...
More notable in its way was another octogenarian's hospital gift last week. Chicago's Mrs. Adeline Wheeler, 88, wife of the late Charles W. Wheeler (grain), gave $2,000,000 to Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital. The gift comprised almost every dollar she had. It was her bequest. She died last week, having lived in Chicago's Congress Hotel since the 1893 World's Fair...
...Fleming H. Revell Jr., wealthy-Manhattan church publisher, onetime Yale sprinter (100 yds. in 9⅓ sec.), issued with his 16-year-old daughter Muriel from the house of his octogenarian father, he was attacked by "my wife, a large, strapping woman." He pushed her aside, dodged her chauffeur, one William Kiefer (named as co-respondent in Mr. Revell's suit for divorce) and sprinted. Near 5th Avenue a burly man caught and held him. Mrs. Revell caught up and renewed her attack with nail, fist, tooth, and then had Mr. Revell arrested for assault. Said he: "The incident...