For me, no diacritical mark signals the idea of Europe and its civilized values (of prewar days) more than the umlaut.

Probably used to chain herself to railings and wave a suffragette flag in good old prewar days.

"I rather miss the prewar days when there was a quicker changeover of plays," he said.

In the prewar days he had not been above discreet visits to certain establishments.

Even in the relative calm of the prewar days, the organization's quota was more of a goal than a limit.

Hospitalized patients in prewar days were comparatively young, and they enjoyed sports and other kinds of recreations.

He dug in his pocket for a roll that would have astonished him in prewar days, peeled off two twenties, and gave them to her.

He was thirty-eight years old, and he could remember the prewar days, the other times.

He did not feel very Christian, while meditating about that feral electronic entity left over from prewar days.

About twenty per cent of those who went to the revival (now to become an annual event) remembered the tradition from prewar days.