Word: yestere
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...standbys of yester-Yule, things like the 15? handkerchief and the $1 necktie, were as extinct as the dodo. Christmas, 1944, might be merry; it would certainly be costly...
...this is on the debit side of the picture. On the credit side is yester- day's Varsity football practice which was extremely impressive. The afternoon's work featured pass defense and a scrimmage between teams...
...issued an appeal to Norway and Sweden for a united front against Hitlerism, external and internal. The external attack which the Danes fear is an attempt by Germany to seize Schleswig, that famous member of the Schleswig-Holstein duet which was such a factor in European politics of yester-year. The theft of Schleswig, they say, is one of the primary objects of the Nazi regime, being desired not simply as an additional pasture for German cows, but as a symbol of Teuton expansion and the first of many successful conquests; the annexation of this province would be the aperitif...
...esthetic gods of yester-year go fast. Rodin (died 1921) was only a sentimental impressionist in sculpture, according to the critics of insurgence. The great names of today were unknown a decade ago. The post-impressionist sculptors who have received the critical accolade ? men whose work would be incomprehensible to a Canova or a Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids...
...aside the friendly, battered old felt headgear for its lighter and more modish cousin, the "boater." But for many the change presents difficulties. With prices soaring even higher than a "straw" in a heavy gale, and with rueful memory of the fact that Max received the hat of yester-year in return for necessary movie fare last autumn, what is there left for the woeful student...