Word: whilom
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...turn deserted by a lover, and occupies herself at the conclusion by protecting her daughter from the latter. Miss Busch is better than four out of five who attain stardom. For once she has a chance and a director. This latter, curious to relate, is Robert Z. Leonard, whilom husband of Mae Murray and directorially responsible for many of that lady's worst endeavors on the screen...
When a somewhat blatant advertisement of the intellectual prowess of Mr. Glenn Frank, President of the University of Wisconsin, whilom editor of the Century, appeared in a recent issue of the Editor and Publisher (TIME, Sept. 21) many people were ready to excuse the poor taste of such ballyhooing on the score: 1) that Mr. Frank's abilities were no whit diminished by the undue noise being made over them, and 2) that he, quite possibly, knew nothing whatever about the advertisement. Last week, however, the Washington Post issued a quarter-page thesis which sought to "sell" President...
Most enthusiasm has been exhibited with public utility shares, despite their recent rise. These whilom conservative issues have lately become most lively vehicles for speculation, owing both to sound anticipation of large future earnings and more doubtfully sound but excited talk of "big mergers...
...more observation and we have done. The CRIMSON, arguing for these tunic trousers intimates that they are the heritage of seagoing ancestors. Trousers are certainly worn wide in the Navy, although a whilom secretary did contemplate restraining them, and they are sometimes worn that way in the merchant service, but they are not turned up at the bottoms. Now these offending bags are turnd up and there by rendered sloppier. Thus the analogy falls, the argument crumbles and wide pants walk in sackcloth and ashes. --Boston Transcript
Youthful Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., able, active scion of an able, active line, whilom Hearstling, who in 1923 branched out from running the national news service that bears his name to endeavoring to establish a chain of newspapers in the U. S. (beginning with two gum-chewers' sheetlets in California [TIME, Aug. 20, 1923]), last week made a loud announcement...