Word: yesteryears
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...tale figure, hovering in his gloomy, weirdly decorated and mysterious little shop like some grotesque but bewitching hermit ..." But since World War I, tattooing has steadily declined. It is too conservative, for one thing, holding to such dull, outmoded motifs as Mickey Mouse, foul anchors, and bathing belles of yesteryear. Ebensten laments: "No atom bomb explodes on any lusty chest...
...where are the curly-fused cannon crackers of yesteryear-so thick, so roundly red, so pregnant with earsplitting, tooth-jarring noise? Where are the backyard skyrockets, with their colored, cone-topped heads and their delicate pinewood sticks? Where are the politicians who spoke, jowls aquiver and veins distended, on the glorious day amid the pleasantly acrid smell of burnt powder? Where are the red, white and blue floats built on flat bed-trucks? Where is the George M. Cohan roll for the player piano and the rock salt for the ice-cream freezer on the back porch...
...year-old Queen, who is handsome, courageous and commonsensical, Britons see reflected the best in their national character. In her husband and children they see upheld the decency of family life which they cherish. The pageantry surrounding them makes this year's drabness bright with the memories of yesteryear; her person alone makes a tiny island the center of a worldwide Commonwealth...
Where are the Braves of yesteryear? Boston grieves, Boston is staggered, Boston's pride is hurt. And Boston is sore...
...appeals in one drive, the sponsors of Combined Charities successfully put an end to the day to day importunity. Chopping away the national charities will not prevent groups like the Cancer Fund or Red Feather from soliciting Harvard students. It will merely force them to resume their methods of yesteryear...