Word: whilom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howard, the Gay Nineties song-&-dance man who wrote I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now and 500 other whilom favorites, is 72. His shuffle-off-to-Buff alo is not what it used to be, but he can still plug a song. Last Christmas, parsimonious Showman Billy Rose, whose cabaret career is paved with old music-hall favorites hired for a song, hired old Joe to sing his old songs at Manhattan's rhinestony Diamond Horseshoe. For Joe Howard, the job was a welcome hitch along his comeback trail-which last week looked promising indeed...
...Most certainly our duty is clear," declared Baron Barnby, chairman of British industries' recent trade mission to Japan and Manchukuo. Also for intervention were two crusty British civil servants long accustomed to telling Orientals what is best-Baron Lamington, onetime Governor of Bombay, and the Earl Peel whilom Secretary of State for India. As cables flashed off their remarks to Tokyo, provoking sharp retorts (see p. 24), 'other peers rebutted with spirit...
...America of today faces a crisis. Other nations are arming, outfitting troops, building battleships and cancelling debts. Europe bristles with bayonets. Asia rules with cruisers, pineapples, and typewriters, every coolie packs a rod. Africa, whilom house of the laughter loving lion, is now a hornet's nest of poison darts, dum dum bullets, King Kong and Frank Buck. War is imminent. (Advertisement courtesy of the National Students League.) In a chaos of Hate and Strife we find ourselves, swept along by irresistible currents, pursued by a thousand enemies, unable to save ourselves by uttering a long quavering squeal...
...Pricked ears as the air-minded Duke of Sutherland, chairman of the Royal Aero Club and whilom Parliamentary Under Secretary for War (1928-29) demanded to know what was Britain's fighting strength in the air and whether His Majesty's Government did not propose to increase...
Elder J. P. Morgan partners ate their dinners elsewhere, but the firm sent young S. Parker Gilbert, whilom Agent General for Reparations, to a banquet at Manhattan's tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria last week for Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...