Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wind] turned Sassenach. Like the Assyrian of old he came down on the fold. In a jiffy he knocked off hats from every head. A thousand silk toppers of assorted vintages went tossing on the breeze. They were borne skyward but not on the wings of song. Coat tails, hitherto sedate enough, designed to cover substantial parts of the human anatomy, became possessed of seven devils. With hilarious impudence they flapped in places where they were not wanted. Badges were torn from the imposing fronts of the city fathers; and stern-faced color guards, strong to face the wind, realized...
...effort to vary, however slightly, the frayed formula for underworld pictures, Warner Brothers stumbled into the environment of illegal gambling, a field so fertile it is hard to see how it had hitherto been neglected. Nick is played by Edward G. Robinson, an actor with the face of a depraved cherub and a voice which makes everything he says seem violently profane. In Smart Money he does again several of the things he did in Little Caesar but not so many that the role is repetitious. His pal, who dies after Nick has hit him for suggesting that his last...
Chrysler bought Maxwell it has made a four, competed with Chevrolet and Ford. But a cheaper four with newsworthy features and a determined selling campaign would make Chrysler a far bigger factor in the field than hitherto. To develop its new car, Chrysler Corp. has spent $500,000 in experimental work and testing, $2,000,000 in tooling, dies and machinery, $7,500,000 in supplying its 10.000 Plymouth dealers with display and demonstration cars. In Detroit is I he Plymouth plant, considered one of the most modern in the industry. Although it has a capacity of 2,000 cars...
...Post, Collier's and Liberty have long been jockeying for preferred time-position on the newsstands. On the theory that a magazine becomes a backnumber after the date printed on its cover, Liberty and Collier's are dated more than a week later than their appearance. The Post hitherto depended on the big weekend trade to absorb its newsstand stock, sometimes sent boys about on Monday to pick up remaining copies of the current issue and peddle them as best they could. By moving ahead to Tuesday, the Post presents itself with two more sales days per week. It apparently...
...collection of the literary debris of Sarah Lampoon, last of the white witches and confidante of the Harvard faculty, is at liberty. Its appearance had hitherto been prophesied by the CRIMSON, and it is reported to have been lurking in the vicinity of Harvard Square bookstores during the wee hours of this morning...