whilom

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

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

"Hear, hear," interposed Lord Birkenhead, whilom "Galloper Smith."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)