venerable

It's summer 1998, and he's hunched over the turntables at New York's venerable VIP bar, Spy.

He was speaker of the Knesset, the parliament, from 1999 to 2003 and before that he chaired the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organisation, two venerable Zionist institutions.

The president installed himself as chairman of the venerable arts institution in Washington, D.C., in February.

It borders on the impossible to verify anything venerable as “the first,” but L.A.’s first restaurant was likely in the Bella Union Hotel, opened in downtown in 1850 in an even older building.

I found myself that weekend watching “Washington Journal,” C-SPAN’s venerable daily call-in show, which posed a question to viewers: What is the most important issue facing America?