Word: quondam
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Herter, until last year Governor of the Commonwealth and a former Overseer, was cited: "Quondam classicist whose presence graced these meetings; statesman secure in Harvard's affection...
...keep his version lively, Translator Enrico Mafficini modeled his dialogue on the colloquial Latin of Plautus (died 184 B.C.), and from the first "Fuit quondam . . ." (Once upon a time), the adventures of Pinoculus move as swiftly as ever. He is set upon by bandits who demand his money or his life ("Emitte nummos aut morerel"), and later decide to hang him ("Suspendamus!"'). He is robbed, imprisoned ("Subito in carcarem mittite," cries the judge), encounters a "horridum serpentem," is nearly eaten alive by a fisherman who thinks he is a crawfish...
...editor, were good enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for general excellence. The Herald's biggest circulation asset is Sportwriter Bill Cunningham, whose orotund mastery of the cliche is often a frontpage delight to readers. Wrote Cunningham from the Florida training camps last week: "Theodore Samuel Williams, the quondam splendid splinter, caught one squarely upon the schnozzola and propelled it in a spectacular parabola all the way into the unchartered [sic'] reaches beyond the right center field fence...
...other hand, Charles Dorning, the quondam Captain of the Pinafore, let many an opportunity of building the Captain into a sympathetic and believable character slip by, although his singing, too, was superb. The one more unfortunate bit of casting was that of Helen Roberts as Josephine, daughter to the Captain, beloved of Ralph Rackstraw, but promised to Sir Joseph Porter. Miss Roberts possesses a fine set of high notes, but she all to frequently let her coloratura get away from her and succeeded in casting her words into some oblivion above the proscenium...
...Jenny. Protectively, she used to call him "my big child." Once, when he briefly returned to Trier, he wrote: "I have been making a daily pilgrimage to the old Westphalen house . . . which used to shelter my sweetheart. And every day people ask me right and left about the quondam 'most beautiful girl' in Trier, the 'Queen of the ball.' It's damned agreeable for a man to find that his wife lives on as an 'enchanted princess' in the imagination of a whole town...