Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Line and perplexed the most astute sea lawyers. The situation, one of many perplexing situations which arose during the week-end, due, perhaps to the natural disappearance of reticence, perhaps to the fact that certain Dunster Funsters finished Mid-years on Wednesday, involved the appearance of an unknown and hitherto unnoted flag on the Atlantic coast, floating gracefully from the mast of Eastern's dignified Saint John...
...Allies. . . . I am seriously considering asking Congress to authorize me to prohibit loans and restrict exportations to the Allies. It is becoming clear to me that there lies latent in this policy the wish to prevent our merchants getting a foothold in markets which Great Britain has hitherto controlled and all but dominated...
...effect was to jerk the Senate investigators roughly back to the present, make their probings a red-hot Senatorial issue. Abruptly revealed was the sharp cleavage between elder statesmen who had known War politics at first hand and younger men who had looked on from the outside. Hitherto the elders had kept silent while the youthful crusaders monopolized front pages with a revision of U. S. history which made those elders out to have been deplorable bunglers, duped by propaganda or impelled by greed. But when ardent young Senator Nye called the Wartime President of the U. S. a liar...
...said, "I like to place Will Barbour among some of the other empire builders who are buried in African soil, because never in all the history of journalism has the press so swiftly, so expertly and so completely built an empire of news and enlightenment in a wilderness hitherto unpenetrated." This was one way of alluding to the fact that it remains impossible to obtain for love or money anything remotely approaching an accurate day by day account of the war on Ethiopia's fronts...
...somewhat embarrassing love affair is not the thing which makes Russet Mantle a notable addition to the Broadway season. Instead of standing around as background for the youngsters, the older members of the cast steal the show for themselves. If this turn of events surprised Playwright Riggs, Playwright Riggs, hitherto noted for poetic horse operas like Green Grow the Lilacs, simply flabbergasted Broadway by revealing an unsuspected talent for Grade A comic characterization...