whilom

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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

Old Joe Howard, the Gay Nineties song-&-dance man who wrote I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now and 500 other whilom favorites, is 72.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the same time, he delivered a few more oblique shafts at his chief tormentor, Senator William Fulbright, a whilom hero of the intellectuals.

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

“Those bricky towers, The which on Themme’s brode aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers; There whilom wont the Templer Knights to bide, Till they decayed thro’ pride.”

From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.