old-time

So we went to Musso and Frank’s in Hollywood, a luxury, old-time environment.

The loans, digital versions of old-time layaway plans, are commonly known as “pay in four” because they’re often advertised as purchases that can be split into four payments over six weeks.

I considered joining the eclipse crowds in Carbondale, Ill., where a news report on Atlas Obscura said that old-time apocalyptic fever — also known as modern-day conspiracy theorist hokum — had taken hold.

“It sounded like an old-time video arcade — bizzing, buzzing, dinging and ringing for two solid minutes,” he said.

He comes from old-time farming stock, generations of conservative Christian Democrats that have traditionally provided the backbone of European agriculture.