Word: yesteryears
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...down the stretch, the attendance appears as considerable as ever, and the crowds of rabid U. S. gentry who mill through the turnstiles at the parks to watch the play, blaspheme the umpire, masticate peanuts, popcorn and chewing gum, are as diligent and enthusiastic as in the summers of yesteryear...
...Senate. In double-breasted blue suit, Charles G. Dawes called the Senate to order. Eighty-nine senators, many in political "full dress," the Prince Alberts of yesteryear, were present at the solemn occasion. Of the four new senators, all except Mr. Nye were led to the rostrum by their colleagues, sworn in and allowed to sign the register. Senators rose up to congratulate the newcomers. Senator Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee, was the first to shake the new Senator La Follette's hand. Mr. Nye's credentials were, referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections...
...able to boast the projected bronze bull dog (to be joined by a leash to "hanc statuam"), a new set of blue lions for the oval and perhaps a correspondence school of cinema photography. Columbia has one! We can even foresee the time when the only relics of yesteryear that Yale can boast will be Professor Beers and compulsory chapel. May the author of "The Ways of Yale", however, long outlive the less noble institution...
Scribbling on a tavern table, inflamed with love and drink, the great scamp of poets, null Villon, asked: "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" A political observer might be tempted to ask the same question, with some-what less of pathos and something more of irony: "Twenty months ago a struggle for the Presidency commenced. But where are the men, the issues, of that yesteryear? Then was the springtime of political hope. Now is the autumn of political fruition. But where are the snows whence sprang this herbage...
There was a trace of the truly scientific mind in that scamp of a poet when he asked: "Where are the snows of yesteryear...