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...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...
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...