Word: septuagenarian
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...Florida for his health, but who, it was announced, would have voted against Mr. Stone), the Insurgent Republicans lined up with their Regular colleagues and with the bulk of the Democrats to settle the matter decisively in Mr. Stone's favor. Following the confirmation, Colonel Ownbey, a septuagenarian, announced: "I have been denied justice and will never again exercise any rights as an American citizen. I am going back West and get my boy and we will go abroad to live. I hoped the Senate would not place the rights of American citizens in the hands...
Minick. The story is simple enough. A septuagenarian comes to live with his son and his son's wife. Into the painfully middle-class household he brings a curious chaos of little things. He does not fit and he gets in the way. Finally he completely shatters a ladies' civic club meeting. Meanwhile he has come to know the denizens of an old men's home nearby. In the last act, he comes to realize that generations may mix but cannot blend. He goes to live among his cronies at the home...
...Lord Parmoor, family name Cripps, is a white-haired septuagenarian with something of the good looks and all of the intelligence of the late Lord Morley. He was Attorney General to King Edward when Edward was Prince of Wales. He combines the ecstatic with the prosaic, interests himself in ecclesiastical questions and farming...
...take turns reading selections from the Social Register and provide exciting entertainment for all. Charles Cherry is the over-bearing husband who is finally overborne. Violet Kemble Cooper lives and breathes the wise and witty wife; Joan Maclean flaps most agreeably. Louise Closser Hale is pungently amusing as the septuagenarian grandmother who has lived her extended lifetime exclusively in the company of ladies and gentlemen, and is getting rather tired of them...