Word: septuagenarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into a San Francisco bar strolled septuagenarian, vegetarian St. Louis Estes, who has made a fortune from talks on raw food, fathered seven sons (all named St. Louis) and seven daughters (four un-named). There he made friends with an unknown couple, took them and two bottles of liquor to his Nob Hill penthouse. While he snoozed, his two guests frisked him of $3,800 and departed. His secretary explained that he had "gone into a tavern, as was his custom from time to time, in order to study human nature, mix with the lower elements, and see what...
Originator of the idea was slim, vigorous septuagenarian Vernon Campbell, long associated with California coops. Legislature approved a similar bill two years ago, but ex-Governor Frank F. Merriam killed it with a pocket veto. Busy Mr. Campbell has already organized his Exchange, with a board of directors including top flight Los Angeles bigwigs. Los Angeles Times Editor Ralph Trueblood offered to help, was told to lay low lest he scare off California Democrats. Liberal Publisher Manchester Boddy also was asked to keep quiet, lest he frighten Republicans...
With the whole world thus searching for loopholes in the British pledge, Septuagenarian Chamberlain this week rose again to speak in the House. In the diplomatic gallery U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky, French Ambassador André Corbin listened. On the floor the group of M. P.'s who had long scoffed at the Prime Minister's efforts to get along with Herr Hitler hung on his words...
...company has had as many ups & downs as an old inner tube. For the last fiscal year (ending October 31), with Son J. Penfield ("Shorty") Seiberling moving up to the presidency and septuagenarian "F. A." to the chairmanship, the company is expected to show a profit running into "six figures...
...Wolf Hopper died three years ago and it was about that time that a wizened little septuagenarian from Silver Springs, Md. walked into a Washington newspaper office and presented himself as the original Casey. Dan Casey had been saying it for 50 years in his native Binghamton, N. Y., where he had worked as a trolley-car conductor since retiring from baseball, but no one had paid much attention. In Washington, however, it was different...