forty-two

Outside the train station they hopped on the number forty-two bus to get to their hotel.

I didn’t even mention the forty-two thousand old oil paintings of stuffy dead guys with fur collars no one cared about.

The commander of the front himself sent a telegram to the regiment, congratulating the two pilots on their fearlessness and airmanship: they had turned away forty-two enemy bombers, and shot down four of them.

Next stop is the art room, where we divvy up these forty-two precious names and transfer them onto strips of colored paper, to be formed into loops and added to the chain.

Roosevelt, who was only forty-two years old, became the youngest president in the nation’s history.