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

Said whilom Ambassador to Britain Charles Gates Dawes who attended, "I believe it is unprecedented for the accredited representative of a foreign power to submit himself to cross-examination."

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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.

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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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The rats were in a worse plight than their whilom victims; for wet, starving and bewildered, they were hunted through a strange warren by their most implacable enemy.

From Lives of the Fur Folk by Haviland, M. D.