Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wearing a short circular skirt and woolen shirt, her strokes as powerful as ever and her reflexes as quick, Oldster Sears amazed the galleries with her extraordinary stamina and agile court coverage, amused them with her rambunctious mannerisms and screaming but good-natured queries to the referee-as though he were way down in the cellar tending the furnace...
...Pelham, N. Y. last week a tired-looking, mild-mannered oldster of 74 sat at lunch with an explorer whom he had never before met-Sir Hubert Wilkins, who has dreamed for years of traveling under the ice to the North Pole in a submarine. The two talked of the trials & tribulations of men fighting the Arctic...
...title, but the boy they talked about on the way home was Welby. "Next year," they said. In the women's singles, Alice Marble breezed through with scarcely a challenge, stood off a grim Helen Jacobs in the final, to the enjoyment of practically everybody but leathery oldster Molla Mallory, who said Alice would never be a tennis player until she learns to put some spin on her forehand...
...head of a huge clan, he often has his home overflowing with relatives, is called "Uncle Sam" by the kids. No tottering oldster, Uncle Sam Kress at 76 is an erect, handsomely preserved, almost white-headed figure who daily keeps himself in condition at his private gymnasium, credits his clear eye and physical fitness to lifelong moderate habits...
This year resilient Oldster Sargent had most fun parading the folklore of U. S. education. Most fantastic folkway, lie found, is commencement, "the greatest folk festival the world has known." Counting graduates, mothers, fathers, sisters, cousins and aunts, some 25,000,000 U. S. citizens take part in this festival each June