Word: behest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like his looks and advise him to leave town. Mr. Capone, who has been ordered and ushered out of Los Angeles, Kansas City and many another city besides his own Chicago,* told the Miamians that he had done no wrong and would leave Miami at no man's behest short of the U. S. Supreme Court. Then he went out, bought $2,000 worth of sheets, towels, napkins, etc., to furnish his mansion, went home to await the arrival of his wife. Miami and Miami Beach police, speculating on the likelihood of their being ordered to roust Mr. Capone...
...bizarre theory of M. Kerensky that the Shahkta Trial is a rehearsed drama with hired "conspirators" confessing right and left at the behest of Prosecutor Krylenko. Curiously enough this extreme view is cautiously echoed by Mr. Walter Duranty, the New York Times' permanent Moscow correspondent who has supplied the only full account of the 'Shahkta Trial carried by any U. S. daily...
Promptly at noon, Aug. 2, newspapermen, at the President's behest, entered his schoolroom office. Everett Sanders, his secretary, closed the door, stood guard-like. The President was smoking a cigar held in an ivory holder. He did not smile as usual, but solemnly inquired: "Is everyone 'here now?" and directed his professional visitors to file past him. As they did so, he handed each one a slip on which, a few minutes previously, Typist Gsioer had imprinted the 10 words "I do not choose to run for President...
...Simmons College, Boston, back of the Art Museum on Huntington Avenue, 835 girls are studying to become private secretaries. Later they will learn the dreariness of this type of work. But as yet they retain their maidenly assurance. And it was in this mood that last week, at the behest of their Director Edward Henry Eldridge, they examined the current prudency of the Ten Commandments. They found that God had graven His Commandments...
...undesirable Buchmanism" was actually in vogue with the Philadelphian Society. Ironically, the mass meeting had been called by the Society itself to launch a $25,000 charity drive. The Society's undergraduate officers denied that they were Buchmanites, but the investigation went forward at President Hibben's behest, by a committee composed of faculty members and trustees as well as undergraduates...