whilom
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His star candidate: "Kid" Lewis, whilom English middleweight champion, a pugilist of no political experience who will contest Whitechapel where he lives, is popular with the rabble.
From Time Magazine Archive
One question was whether he had given money to Albert Bacon Fall, whilom Secretary of the Interior.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Doom, Holland, last week, Germany's whilom All Highest War Lord, Wilhelm II, spread staff maps of Manchuria on long tables and had fun sticking them with colored pushpins.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was ancient Jack Kearns, owner and groom to seven whilom world champions, the man who took so much money out of Shelby.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day we trace from Pittsfield the footsteps of Hawthorne and Melville across the Taconics to the whilom home of "Mother Ann" and to the higher Hancock peaks.
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
