Word: yesteryears
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...cannot predict the future with assurance (though we may look to it with dread). But we can point to the trend. In general it is away from the neo-breezeblown toward the neo-neat. The pigtail of yesteryear is not yet gone but is is fading fast. No longer does the milkmaid arrange her silken tresses into the wonted braids. Her sister in the big city is likewise gripped by the fever of change. On all sides the idols of the past are falling--even the neo-underbrush, once so secure, is threatened. No one knows what the future...
...French poet once asked "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" He could never have written that in Cambridge. The snows of yesterday are right here, underfoot with those of the year before, growing shaggy in the sun but patiently waiting for that chance to turn an ankle or crumple...
...kind of newspaper pictured in Scandal Sheet was topical 25 years ago, when the film's plot might also have seemed fresher. Nothing is as dead as yesterday's newspaper, but yesteryear's newspaper melodrama comes close...
...massive array of promising eyes, perfect legs and pneumatic bosoms, he finds nothing that can quite match his favorites of yesteryear-Theda Bara, the archetype of the Vamp; Gloria Swanson, with her passion for spangles and feathers; Clara Bow, the original "It" girl; Greta Garbo, the incomparable Swede, still a legend after a decade off the screen; Jean Harlow, whose platinum-blonde petulance and provocative lisp still agitate nostalgic memories in thousands of aging males...
...staging its survey, the Met had honored U.S. painting with a warm and far-too-inclusive embrace. Like the Pepsi-Cola roundups of yesteryear, which were similarly selected, it proved only the obvious point that the U.S. boasts a score of brilliant painters and a mass of mediocre ones. This conclusion was not at all depressing-because it holds true for every nation and for every field of art-but the show...