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Gone from the front page are the old-fogyish editorial cartoons, as well as the proclamation that this is the "American Paper for Americans."

From Time Magazine Archive

Wasp-waisted Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek agrees with President Roosevelt that the present is no time for old-fogyish, orthodox finance.

From Time Magazine Archive

To commit blindly to memory precious forms of truth, which the wise and good have hived for the use of the race, is poohed at as old-fogyish.

From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by Hart, John S. (John Seely)

The business of the company is managed on the outfit system, the most old-fogyish, yet by its officers declared to be the most perfect, plan in use by any corporation.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian

Simplicity and sincerity, whether in dress, in speech, or in conduct, have so long been foreign to our daily living and thinking that we incline to style these qualities as old-fogyish.

From The Reconstructed School by Pearson, Francis B.