earlier generation

That sound you hear is an earlier generation of American Jewish leaders turning in their graves.

An earlier generation of Kennedy men were notorious for sharing women.

An earlier generation of women at Princeton were gung ho to show they belonged on Princeton's grand and gothic campus.

Nancy Pelosi tops a list of empty nesters in Congress; Madeleine Albright was the outlier from an earlier generation.

Sometimes they seem to belong entirely to the woman herself, and no trace of them can be found in an earlier generation.

It suggested so pleasantly the housewifely thrift and cleanliness of an earlier generation which she loved to copy.

His household at Badminton was regulated after the fashion of an earlier generation.

One does not, for a moment, counsel reversion to the type or to the methods of an earlier generation.

Yet these changes and others are far from obliterating those features of the earlier generation on which we have dwelt.