Word: sexagenarian
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...cooking. Each contained ample traces of the favorite Hahn seasoning- arsenic and croton oil. By the time the corpses of four of Mrs. Hahn's former friends had been examined, a variation in the monotonous pattern of Mrs. Hahn's past finally appeared. This was a hardy sexagenarian named George Heis, for whom the only consequences of a late evening snack of beer, pancakes, spinach, arsenic and croton oil, prepared by Mrs. Hahn, was partial paralysis and indigestion. Still hale enough to be wheeled into court, George Heis quavered out the most damaging testimony at her trial...
Franz Lehar is not only a Hungarian; he is a Rotarian. The best of this gifted sexagenarian's melodies-lyrically proclaim his Magyar background. The Lehar melodic line at its best is marvelously cunning, fresh, deceptive. It climbs like a lark to clear heights, then swoops down and off in a breathtaking, unexpected course...
...France. Instead they abstained from voting at all. Confidence was voted by a majority of 196 in an extremely vague declaration of Cabinet policy which leaves Premier Sarraut's hands virtually free. A humdrum political wheelhorse, the Premier aims merely to hold on until the general election. Cried Sexagenarian Sarraut: "I am an old militant, one who, as he grows older, feels his passionate love for France and for the Republic increase!" This declaration the Right greeted with derisive shouts of "Zay! Zay!"-a pointed allusion to the fact that M. Jean Zay, the new Under-Secretary to Premier...
...irrelevant but to Cuban politicians basically fascinating ransom of $300,000 for Sugar Tycoon Castano was understood to have been paid. In Cuba such major kidnappings are commonly supposed to be the work of patriots who can think of no other way to raise enough money for a revolution. Sexagenarian Castano was finally discovered by soldiers in the suburbs, said no ransom had been paid...
Five thousand strong, a hopeful delegation of Croat peasants meanwhile cheered sexagenarian Croat Leader Vecheslav Wilder who cried: "We have endured seven lean years, given us by the Belgrade Dictatorship, but seven fat years lie ahead!" Seasoned old Croat rebels, such as famed Svetozar Pribitchevitch who now lurks in Paris, meanwhile slipped warning letters into Yugoslavia by secret courier. They feared that the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, has developed Nazi leanings and chose M. Stoyadinovitch to be Premier for the purpose of shifting Yugoslavian policy a few points away from Paris and several points nearer Berlin. "Beware!" warned Rebel...