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Word of the Day for Friday, September 12, 2008hoary \HOR-ee\, adjective: 1. White or gray with age; as, "hoary hairs." Once upon a time, memoirs were written by hoary chaps casting rheumy glances back towards their golden youth: no more. Had Mozart lived to the hoary old age of 73, he might indeed have fallen out of favor in an era besotted with Rossini, becoming a "largely forgotten, neglected, unperformed composer." Mr. Weicker spends most of his time serving up hoary war stories and settling old political scores. Compare that with the elements of a musical in about 1920: the star in a cliche story that was merely a framing device for generic musical numbers, hoary joke-book gags, and the usual specialty performers in a staging more often than not by a hack. Hoary derives from Middle English hor, from Old English har, "gray; old (and gray-haired)." | |||||||||
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