Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema star, Mrs. Paradine did not become a public character, the talk of London, until she was accused of poisoning blind Colonel Paradine, V. C. But like Garbo she was glamorous, passionate, enigmatic-a femme fatale. She complicated life unbearably enough for her lawyer Sir Malcolm Keane, hitherto a devoted husband, without having his young wife Gay antagonize Judge Horfield by squelching his lickerish advances. And again like Garbo, Mrs. Paradine was of humble Scandinavian birth, had once worked in a barber shop. So there had been no insuperable barrier between her and her husband's valet, handsome William...
...solution to the problem. Raising the rate two dollars a week would mean ony a slight expense for six weeks. This suggestion has often been made by students who feel that the improvement would be more than worth the extra charge, and should be entertained more seriously than hitherto. Instead of furnishing menus that are just sufficiently tempting to keep back a torrent of complaints, Lehman Hall would do well to avoid the appearance of making reductions for the students' benefit and provide more attractive meals, regardless of the inconsequential increase in price...
What does seem practical would be to turn the second floor over to the department or departments which have not yet adequate office space and conference rooms. Such a change would involve little or no renovation, and would provide such departments as History and Literature or German, which have hitherto suffered from cramped or scattered quarters, with ample space. The rooms on the ground floor might be left as they are, and could be used for informal meetings of faculty members and concentrators in the same field, a practice which has proved highly successful in bringing members of the field...
Bank secrecy: Q. Should not private banks be examined and forced to publish statements of condition? A. Possibly-but hitherto publication of such statements would conflict with State law prohibiting private bankers from advertising for deposits. Q. What assurance has a depositor of the solvency of Morgan & Co.? A. Faith. Q, Are not depositors entitled to statements of Morgan & Co.'s condition? A. They can have them if they want them; no one has ever asked. Q. Has any public statement of this fact ever been made except when the Elder Morgan testified before the Pujo Committee 20 years...
Reporter Hill's new job is to write a daily editorial entitled "The Human Side of the News" (same title as that of his Columbia broadcast) for Hearst evening papers, in the space hitherto filled by Claude Gernade Bowers, new Ambassador to Spain...