Word: quondam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rico's bold murder shattered Accomplice Tony's nerves. Tony, in his rosy-cheeked teens, had driven Rico and the two others from the scene in a big Cadillac. Then Tony, quondam choirboy, fled to a priest to confess it all. Hearing Tony was not a sturdy sinner, Rico gave chase, caught the boy going into the cathedral, silenced him forever with an automatic. Gangsters approved...
...college wanted the Lampoon Building, it was not for him or his aides to stand in the way of the development of the House plan." His business manager stated that the Lampoon unfortunately, was in no position to prevent foreclosure of the mortgage. Old Lampoon editors, the quondam rivals of the editors of the CRIMSON, and prominent Harvard Alumni, were unanimous in deploring the move made to throttle the Lampoon. "What does it matter if the Lampoon isn't funny", stated a former editor of the periodical, now with Life, "Fun's fun, and nobody will take it seriously...
...immense satisfaction of authorities at Geneva, the United States is likewise giving the League statistics and information pertinent to League investigations, and has, moreover, departed from her quondam policy of answering League communications eight months after their receipt, now answering the with solicitous promptitude. The reason is obvious. After years of uncertainty, the United States is finally determined on isolation. After years of attempted conversion, the League has given the United States up for a bad job and left her to the good graces of that isolation. Being farther apart in fact, the two are closer together in understanding...
About Walter Hines Page (quondam U. S. Ambassador to Britain...
Presently the curtain rises again on the small lobby of the Commercial House in Herrington. The girl an ingenue, well played by Miss Mayo Methot, has been taken under the wing of the proprietress, while the quondam hobo who saved the former and has since fellen in love with her, has found a job and sufficient prospects for an early marriage. Enter the deacon with as smooth a piety as his legerdemain at cards. The audience, as the action proceeds to draw forth an unquestionably real and homely set of characters, is at a loss to know what to expect...