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Each vintage the back labels are different, and resemble traditional circus tickets and playbills, containing creative and humorous messages that harken to the olden days of wonder and spectacle.
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Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
New York has long loomed large in the traveller’s imagination, most notably in the olden, jet-setting days when getting there was half the fun.
—Nicholas D. Lowry, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
In the olden days, writers were taught to put the mark –30– at the bottom of a story to indicate the end.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
Of course today the Tiergarten is statues, but in olden days was a real hunting ground for Berlin’s elite, with deer and wild animals.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
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Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
New York has long loomed large in the traveller’s imagination, most notably in the olden, jet-setting days when getting there was half the fun.
—Nicholas D. Lowry, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
In the olden days, writers were taught to put the mark –30– at the bottom of a story to indicate the end.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
Of course today the Tiergarten is statues, but in olden days was a real hunting ground for Berlin’s elite, with deer and wild animals.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
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“Olden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/olden. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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olden
adjective
old·en
ˈōl-dən 
: of or relating to earlier days
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