Word: quondam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Director is burly Frank Chodorov, quondam schoolteacher, traveling salesman, manufacturer, editor, who constantly has a pipe or cigar in his mouth. Director Chodorov last week had a simple explanation for Georgism's revival: its simplicity. So simple that the school claims the man-in-the-street can be trained to teach it, Henry George's doctrine, according to Mr. Chodorov, sweeps aside the "academic gibberish" with which orthodox practitioners of the "dismal" science of economics clothe their confusion. Director Chodorov also claimed that the Henry George School is free from propaganda: "We don't make the students...
...Since when is [Policy Racketeer] Dutch Schultz, quondam resident of these parts, a Jew? If you have names of persons who are conducting a policy racket. I know of several agencies to whom such information would be extremely helpful...
...Mucedorus" was reprinted twenty times, and was even attributed, by some master of irony, some unhonored Voltaire, (also, alas! unknown) to Shakespeare. But perhaps the author of "Mucedorus," the Edgar Wallace of his time, never aspired to Valhalia. . . Let us summon from Limbo instead the wraiths of John Gower, quondam peer of Chaucer; and of Stephen Hawes, his disciple: let us read the "Lament for the Makirs," and marvel...
...when you state in a recent issue that Eliot House will be the only House to have an "individual coach" (one wonders whether a coach can be more than an individual) for its "exclusive boating club" ("for it's jolly boating weather") you do a grave injustice to my quondam mentor and still esteemed friend, the Head Tutor of Lowell House, whose services to the crew, back in '31, still live vividly in the recollections of those privileged to row in that remarkable boat. Has the present generation forgotten that breath-taking race against Dunster House for the Thunder...
Well, after two or three years the quondam Princetonian returns with a varicose accent, a mouth full of hot mush, a dandified swagger, and a fairly general contempt for things in this bally o country...