whilom

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Miss Bennett,* whilom "Baby Eva Tanguay" of vaudeville, looks like a street cherub with the legs of a high-jumper.

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For some time the Russian Soviet Government has had as its Minister to Poland whilom aristocratic Prince Obolensky.

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One question was whether he had given money to Albert Bacon Fall, whilom Secretary of the Interior.

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The movie colony is now off, like a merrily misguided missile, on another of its whilom whooshes toward the unknown.

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Where now are the Parsons, with too high a hand Who whilom were wont things to carry?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 by Various