He is an old codger now, and his family completely rejects the allegations.
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Sanders will likely not rebut his leftist base; he's not the nice old codger that some project.
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Even this old codger who followed their steroid-fueled stats would vote them in if I could.
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Youngsters may sigh with impatience when an old codger tells them how life was tougher "when I was your age".
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The devilish old codger and said father, Jack (Christopher Plummer), recently ousted from his nursing home for incorrigible weed-dealing.
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Though he is hobnobbing with former enemies, the old codger still finds it difficult to apologise for the excesses of his tenure.
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Ed, for instance, comes from Sam Shepard territory—the bitter old codger who sees nothing wrong with his boys trying to act like men, whatever that is.
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By the 1930s, the term had changed in Hollywood to refer to entertainers who played specific types: Walter Brennan as the leathery old codger, Ward Bond as the avuncular authority figure.
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He had even started to think of having a new partnerin life, but what employer or woman would be interested in the wrinkled up,elderly old codger he saw in the mirror?
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He had even started to think of having a new partner in life, but what employer or woman would be interested in the wrinkled up, elderly old codger he saw in the mirror?
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Carter, that crafty old codger, came through in the most spectacular way imaginable, with a game-high 24 points on a perfect eight-of-eight from the field in Memphis' 113-93 win over the Milwaukee Bucks.
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The inebriate pad holder, the journeyman fighter, the washed up vet, the up-and-coming greenhorn, the big-eyed promoter, the swift-fingered cuts man, the old codger with the stool and bucket: everybody in the Muay Thai game loves an elbow fighter.
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Singles released from the album were "Nice 'n' Sleazy", b/w "Shut Up", and "Walk On By", b/w "Tank" and "Old Codger". "Old Codger" featured a guest vocal from jazz singer George Melly. An edited version of "Walk On By" with "Tank" was also pressed as a double A-side radio-play single. Most of these tracks were included in the remastered 2001 CD re-issue of the album.
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They try unsuccessfully to get her car started, and she sets off for Truxton on foot. Days later, she finally arrives at the café, riding in a wagon driven by a kind old codger, only to find that her job has been given to a hula dancer “in cellophane spinach.” Maisie stops to eat in Harry's greasy spoon.
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The film begins in the interior bedroom of an inn. There enters a traveler, slightly intoxicated, accompanied by a porter, who carries his baggage. The traveler takes off his hat, his coat and his shoes. The servant places these things upon a clothes- rack in such a way that they resemble the outlines of the back of an old codger.
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The show also featured cartoon sections, a device later used in Monty Python's Flying Circus. Other times, the cartoon characters interacted with the real people. The cartoons were by Biographic Cartoon Films Ltd. The actors were seen in many different disguises and Dick Emery started a number of his characters there, like the old codger, and developed his funny voices.
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It is an immense but ramshackle building with no heat and a colorful old codger, Jesse McCord, living in the shed. McCord offers his services as a bartender, but Baxter assigns him the job of bellhop. Local grease monkey Wally Perkins explains that the Grand Imperial sits on a huge amount of property. Baxter realizes that they can turn the hotel into a ski resort.
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In 2011, Banville was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize. Marcel Reich-Ranicki and John Calder featured on the jury. Banville described the award as "one of the ones one really wants to get. It's an old style prize and as an old codger it's perfect for me ... I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent" and said his bronze statuette trophy "will glare at me from the mantelpiece".
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Whilst holidaying in Ireland, British TV producer Randall (Tony Wright) comes across a village celebrating the birthday of the oldest man in the world, Patrick Farrell (Barry Fitzgerald). Thinking Farrell's 110th birthday would make an ideal subject for a BBC documentary, Randall seeks to persuade him to agree to being filmed. However, Farrell proves difficult, is an old codger, cantankerous and disreputable, and will cooperate only if he can exploit the situation for his own ends.
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He recorded a track called "Old Codger" with The Stranglers in 1978, which was especially written for him by the band. Melly, who was bisexual, moved from strictly homosexual relationships in his teens and twenties to largely heterosexual relationships from his thirties onwards.Lynn Barber, "George and I were drunk with sex", The Observer, 17 July 2005. He married twice and had a child from each marriage, though his first child Pandora was not known to be his until she was much older.
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He played a wide spectrum of music that was readily available in the store. By 1978, Stephen Goodwin started making appearances as "The Old Codger" and other regular guests dropped by, like Paul Ray (of The Cobras and the KUT program Twine Time), disco DJ Casey Jones, writer Joe Nick Patoski, playwright Greg Barrios and Neil Ruttenberg. When McDaniel exited the show in 1979, Ruttenberg (taking on the moniker of "Rev. Neil X") took the reins at the height of the punk–new wave era.
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The phrase "Roger Dodger" originated during World War II, and was verbally circulated throughout the United States military as a part of a story about a pilot or soldier that added his own flair to radio phraseology. The punch line of this story is, "Roger Dodger, you old codger!" The story was passed along by servicemen in all branches of the military. Here is one version of the story set in the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II: > :A squadron of Navy aircraft was returning to base after a wildly successful > mission.
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Cannonball was a comedic sidekick to Wild Bill Elliott, in 13 features. He played the same character in B Western Rustlers of the Badlands Westerns starring Charles Starrett, Russell Hayden, Tex Ritter, and Jimmy Wakely. Then Taylor dropped the Cannonball name because he felt it held him back from getting roles in films with larger budgets. Triplett, Gene, Hollywood's Old Codger, January 24, 1982 Oklahoman, Oklahoma, OK He had bit parts in a number of classic motion pictures, including Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Star Is Born, and Them!.
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Fox described the inspiration for the cartoon series in an article he wrote for The Saturday Evening Post titled "A Queer Way to Make a Living" (February 11, 1928, page six): > After years of gestation, the idea for the Toonerville Trolley was born one > day up in Westchester County when my wife and I had left New York City to > visit Charlie Voight, the cartoonist, in the Pelhams. At the station, we saw > a rattletrap of a streetcar, which had as its crew and skipper a wistful old > codger with an Airedale beard. He showed as much concern in the performance > of his job as you might expect from Captain Hartley when docking the > Leviathan.
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Boyle joined the military in 1967, entering the Royal Military College of Canada as student #8790 and training under Brigadier General William Kirby Lye, whom he characterised as a "crusty old codger". He spent his first year at school in Fort Champlain, sharing a room with Brian D. Pashley, before moving on to spend his next three years living in the Stone Frigate; he participated in varsity football, handball and judo. He graduated with his Honours degree in Economics in 1971. He became Commanding Officer of 4 Fighter Wing and Base Commander of CFB Baden-Soellingen in 1988.Commanding Officers: CFB Baden-Soellingen He returned to the RMC as Commandant in 1991 and served for two years.
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Torrence played the despicable adversary Luke Hatburn in Tol'able David (1921) opposite Richard Barthelmess and immediately settled into films for the rest of his career and life. He played an old codger in the acclaimed classic western The Covered Wagon (1923) and gained attention from his roles in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) as Clopin, king of the beggars, and with Betty Bronson in Peter Pan (1924) as the dastardly Captain Hook. He played an Army General who escapes into the circus world and becomes a clown in The Side Show of Life (1924). In an offbeat bit of casting he paired up with Clara Bow in Mantrap (1926), unusually as a gentle, giant type backwoodsman in search of a wife.
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He was a private in World War I before becoming an actor, and determined to become a popular radio and television actor, his career began on stage where he got his first role in a silent film called The Silent Witness (1917). He later played the role of the Tin Woodsman on a radio version of The Wizard of Oz. His distinctive voice can be frequently heard in supporting roles in radio, particularly westerns where he was often cast as an old codger, miner, or master of the cook wagon. Matthews appeared on the short-lived series Luke Slaughter of Tombstone as Slaughter's sidekick, Wichita, and played Ling Wee, a Chinese waiter, in Gasoline Alley. He also made guest appearances on several television series in the 1950s and '60s.
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