Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This last question, hitherto shelved by British diplomacy, was what last week ingratiated Soviet Russia at the same time that it irked Germany. The Russian objection that the British note gave unlimited opportunity for evasion was precisely its virtue in the eyes of the British gentlemen who framed it. Last week, after preliminary secrecy, the note was printed simultaneously in British and German newspapers. Commented the Frankfurter Zeitung sagely: ''Questions can be asked because you want to know what someone thinks or intends to do. They can be asked because you do not know yourself what you want...
...rich and cultured Harvardman like his late uncle, 34-year-old Boies II has hitherto devoted himself to scholarship and society, is the owner of a notable collection of etchings, engravings, manuscripts and rare books. When he decided few months ago to make a career for himself in politics, leaders of Philadelphia's Republican machine warmly welcomed a young man with so potent a name, so fat a pocketbook. Candidate Penrose, who owns a 125-acre estate on the Main Line at swank Devon where he takes his own and neighbors' small children for rides on his mile...
...Challenger dining car will serve break fast for 25?, lunch for 30?, dinner for 35?. Between meals the diner, hitherto the private preserve of the chief steward and his waiters, may be used as a club car for games and drinks...
That, with wise direction, he can achieve something beyond the manly muteness on which his reputation as an actor has hitherto reposed, Gary Cooper recently proved in the Frank Borzage-Ernst Lubitsch Desire. Herein he gives further evidence of a sense of humor, thereby helps its authors and an expert cast make Mr. Deeds Goes to Town altogether worthwhile entertainment...
...field where accessories often outsell salesmen, this phenomenal boom did not escape the alert eye of General Motors Corp. Last week GM bought Crosley Radio's automobile radio division at Kokomo, Ind., announced that, at additional cost, it would install radios as initial equipment in new cars. Hitherto General Motors cars, like many another make, have been built to take receiving sets should the customer buy one as an extra. No newcomer to radio, General Motors some years ago made home sets in a short-lived venture which was liquidated...