Word: whilom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conservative attacks on the bill were led by famed Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, whilom Chancellor of the Exchequer, who enjoyed a piece of Scot MacDonald's birthday cake in New York last fall (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week Cake-giver MacDonald lashed out at Cake-eater Churchill: "You are making politics of this [coal bill] and nothing else. All your wit and polished phrases are for the sole purpose of forcing us to go to the country for another election. If you do we will beat...
...further expression of gratitude, James made Arabella's brother the first Duke of Marlborough, the line from which offshot England's present irrepressible Winston Churchill, whilom Chancellor of the Exchequer (TIME, June 17 et ante...
...real old-timers of the game, both also whilom captains, will probably be seen in action for an inning or so as battery men working together. They are W. T. Reid '01, catcher, and Walter Clarkson '04, captain and pitcher...
...March 1924, when the oil scandals were white-hot, Oilman Sinclair was called before the Senate Public Lands Committee. Ten questions were put to him. One question was whether he had given money to Albert Bacon Fall, whilom Secretary of the Interior. Oilman Sinclair, on advice of counsel, Martin Wilie Littleton, refused to answer every question...
...Except Jack Kearns, whilom manager of Pugilist Jack Dempsey, who, knowing nothing of the theatre, was persuaded by a friend to buy two tickets for the show a fortnight ago, was one of an audience of 20 persons, was laughed at for his ignorance by many a Broadwayfaring friend...