Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first ten days of Spring and Fall showings are secret affairs, by invitation only. Prior to this there are even more exclusive Private Views, with champagne and salad at the bigger & better houses, a custom begun in 1921. Jean Patou, as every schoolgirl knows, has an elaborate modernistic cocktail bar, free to customers, favored friends and to all comers admitted to an Opening. To Jean Patou first flocked last week's observers...
...have been criticized for having visited the School unexpectedly, without giving prior notice, and investigating as I did. As to this I believe that this is better than to go when plans have been made and the School is on dress parade. I conceive it to be within the duty of the Governor to visit any institution any time to learn first hand what is going...
...pleasure to have known the Hon. W. C. Todd of Atkinson, N. H. for many years prior to his death. Mr. Todd was old enough to be my father, and I am a grandfather...
...that this was [he]. . . . My testimony in the various cases was untrue and false. I desire to undo the wrong done by me in sending Mooney to prison, regardless of personal consequences." He repeated his story of being kept and entertained by the San Francisco police at a hotel prior to testifying...
...Effective Saturday morning July 12, at the opening of business, the Standard Oil Company of California will restore its prices for gasoline to levels prevailing prior to the beginning of the so-called price war. . . . The Standard Oil Co. of California announces as a policy that it will not sell its products to ... the dealer who cuts his prices...