Word: yesteryears
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...exiles suffered their dark night of the soul. Most of the Communist labor camps have been closed, but the ghosts of those who died in them are as palpable as the polar blizzards heralding Siberia's long winter. The cities are still cluttered with the wooden hovels of yesteryear, peasant women still do their laundry in the icy rivers, and men still wear the padded-cotton clothing of China. Horsetail Banners. But there have been vast changes as well. Under the Communists, the population of Siberia has more than doubled to nearly 19 million. The free, windswept steppes that...
...portrait by Marcel Vertes, Lily Pons, now a Dallas resident, essayed a summer comeback at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. One critic praised the 57-year-old coloratura's "firm sense of rapport with the crowd," but the Times, although noting "flashes of the great stylist of yesteryear," contented itself with the comment that "no orchestra could be expected to follow a singer through quite as many adventures with pitch as Miss Pons encountered...
...come out for another round." To Fowler's generation of writers, New York was always the Big Town, a drink was spiritus frumenti, and Broadway was the Rue Regret. Reading Skyline with or without spiritus frumenti, one question is bound to arise: Where are the monkey glands of yesteryear...
...stump Nixon was not yet the punching campaigner of yesteryear. But he was beginning to take off his gloves...
...giving pollsters and politicians the jitters. But that was only half the puzzle: those voters who came into direct contact with Jack Kennedy or Dick Nixon seemed to be impressed. Each candidate was working out a campaign style uniquely his own-and as different from the florid behavior of yesteryear as farm subsidies are from free silver...