Eighty Fifth

The day came that Louise threw a party for herself to celebrate her eighty-fifth birthday. ❋ Jerry Ratch (2011)

By this time, Brother Curtis was approaching his eighty-fifth birthday. ❋ Lisa Davis (2011)

I had heard that on his upcoming eighty-fifth birthday, the former president planned to go skydiving, as he had done on several other landmark birthdays. ❋ Gregory Levey (2010)

At the beginning of 1947, when eighty-year-old Klara was no longer able to care for her, Helene Simon moved to a private nursing home, where she died on December 8, 1947, shortly after her eighty-fifth birthday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She died there on her eighty-fifth birthday, but was buried in Jerusalem. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our country's claim: Oration at the citizens 'celebration of the eighty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States delivered in Norombega Hall, Bangor, July 4th, 1861 by Samuel Harris ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although she decided not to return to Berlin to live, she received reparations and a pension from her homeland; the City of Berlin honored her on the occasion of her eighty-fifth birthday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In celebration of her eighty-fifth birthday, in 1995, the dance world joined in tribute to her accomplishments and service, her pioneer work in Mexico and Israel, and, above all, her “blazing force and integrity.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

  This one is for a musician, a Britney Spears who expired on her eighty-fifth birthday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

           The day came that Louise threw a party for herself to celebrate her eighty-fifth birthday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This one is for a musician, a Britney Spears who expired on her eighty-fifth birthday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Betty Friedan died of congestive heart failure at her home in Washington, DC, on her eighty-fifth birthday, February 4, 2006. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Me and my grandmother on her eighty-fifth birthday ❋ Tony (2008)

This is a deadpan, hilarious satire, documenting a single night at a small-town party organized by the local fire brigade, honoring their retiring chairman on his eighty-sixth birthday they missed honoring him on the more meaningful eighty-fifth, a year earlier, in the first of many fumbles committed by this incompetent assemblage. ❋ Ed Howard (2008)

“Welcome, everyone, to this, the eighty-fifth initiation ceremony of Billings House,” Cheyenne said. ❋ KATE BRAIN (2007)