"Second, raise banks' required equity to 20%, formerly the standard amount of equity required of mortgagors in the good old days of "reasonable credit standards.""
"The poem is, as its title proclaims, the Poem of the Rhone, a poem of sincere regret for the good old days when the muscular sons of Condrieu ruled the stream, the days of jollity, of the curious boating tournaments of which one is described in Calendau, when the children used to watch the boats go by with a Condrillot at the helm, and the Rhone was swarming like a mighty beehive."
"Gardenia Street was where a lot of nice houses had been built back in the good old days before the Depression."