demicentennial

Updated: May 28, 2025

I confess that I had so far deliberately tried to forget my approaching fiftieth milestone, or at least to dodge it with closed eyes as I passed it by, that my daughter's polite congratulation on my demicentennial anniversary gave me an unexpected and most unpleasant shock. "You really ought to be ashamed of yourself!" she remarked as she joined me at breakfast. "Why?"

Arthur Cheney Train - The "Goldfish"