Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Mayor James John Walker. The latter dropped in at a hotel where Mrs. Smith was being given a banquet and a diamond-studded vanity case by 1,000 civic-minded women. Mayor Walker kissed Mrs. Smith twice and before hurrying away, cried out: "I leave behind my congratulations for this recognition of the most beautiful flower in this garden of womanhood, Mrs. Alfred E. Smith...
Then over Station XFX and probably for the first time in history a prisoner described to thousands his sensations under "third degree." José de Leon Toral said tonelessly that he was suspended, swung and jerked by a rope binding his wrists and ankles behind his back, while policemen kicked him and predicted, "He'll soon sing...
...lies Long Island. Here, in a country made for pleasure, live socially-minded persons who dart to their diversions along concealed and crooked trails, inserted through the woods or strewn upon the shore. Their houses, lying between hills or built above bright beaches, are walled with forests and reticent behind curling drives. Who builds them and makes them beautiful...
...Behind the Newsprint Export of Canada there existed a theory and a fact. The theory was that the price of newsprint to U. S. publishers was $65 a ton. The fact was that association members were making deals with such major users as Publisher William Randolph Hearst for less than $60 a ton. When the fact became known to the theory, the Newsprint Export went up in smoke. The Hearst contracts went into court...
...Algerian Marathon runner who won the Olympic race at Amsterdam last summer came to the U. S. in order to race for Promoter Bill ("Easy") Pickens. Last fortnight in Manhattan, he ran against Joie Ray whom he had beaten, by a last minute sprint, at Amsterdam; with frightened looks behind him and a low scooping stride. El Ouati beat Ray for the second time by seven laps. After this race it was planned to send El Ouati and Joie Ray on a tour of U. S. cities, beginning with Boston and Philadelphia...