Word: whilom
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Among the changes which life has brought to Alfonso XIII. whilom King of Spain, is that he who always used to appear in the press as the Merry Monarch, the Gentleman-Sportsman, the Genial Host, has lately been thrust into the less popular role of Stern Father. Only last month he abruptly broke the engagement of his daughter Beatriz on learning for sure that she and her sister Maria Christina were "carriers" of haemophilia, the family scourge. Last week he smashed the romance of his big-boned 23-year-old second son, the Infante Jaime. Prince Jaime is no haemophile...
...Doom, Holland, last week, Germany's whilom All Highest War Lord, Wilhelm II, spread staff maps of Manchuria on long tables and had fun sticking them with colored pushpins. It was like old times...
...Lenin is prankish Sir Oswald Mosley, rich playboy politico. Deserted by Oliver Baldwin and by his wife (Lady Cynthia Mosley M. P. excused herself from seeking re-election "on account of poor health"), Sir Oswald put-18-queer candidates, mostly athletes, in the field. His star candidate: "Kid" Lewis, whilom English middleweight champion, a pugilist of no political experience who will contest Whitechapel where he lives, is popular with the rabble...
...things of the first magnitude were done last week by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquess of Reading, whilom Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21) and Viceroy of India...
...troops which were not his closed in upon Peking last week "President" Yen proclaimed his resignation, withdrew to Shansi with a loyal army. After him scuttled his whilom "Prime Minister," the recently proud and pompous Wang Ching-wei. Strapping Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, ally of Yen, famed master of "the largest private army in the world," covered the ex-Presidential rear...