Word: sexagenarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back from Europe last week, on the S. S. France came Walter Damrosch, genial, sexagenarian conductor of the New York Symphony, and forthwith there was issued an announcement of several of the Symphony Society's novelties for next season...
This angered sexagenarian, one-eyed Deputy Picot. He jumped out of his place, rushed up the steps of the tribunal, attempted to drag Doriot to the floor. In a moment the Chamber was in an uproar. Deputies and ushers rushed toward the struggling men. M. Franklin-Bouillon, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, ran full tilt into Communist Deputy Bourlois, who struck him a resounding punch in the face. Staggered, M. Bouillon stepped back a pace, blood dripping from his nose, and in a second more he closed with the Communist and they rolled to the floor...
Famed for a sexagenarian romance and for fearless unorthodox sermons, Percy Stickney Grant resigned his office. He had for 31 years been rector of the Church of the Ascension, near Greenwich Village, Manhattan, in the Bishopric of William T. Manning, Cathedral-builder...