whilom

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Five years ago, the whilom Senator Magnus Johnson of Minnesota, and the Hearst press, suggested Dr. Copeland for President.

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John Randolph Hearst Jr., 28, whilom journalist and grandson of William Randolph Hearst; and Patricia Lusk Tenny, 23, onetime Hearst magazine trainee; in Manhattan.

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After him scuttled his whilom "Prime Minister," the recently proud and pompous Wang Ching-wei.

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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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Umquhile, um′hwīl, adv. and adj. a Scotch form of Um′while, formerly, late, whilom.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various