Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Handsome, stocky, dark, and dapper, Gene Sarazen, walked round a golf course at Nassau with dour Johnny Farrell, voted the best dressed U. S. golfer. At the ninth hole Sarazen was a stroke behind. At the seventeenth he was all even. He sank his approach shot on the eighteenth for a birdie 2. Farrell's 15-foot putt hit the back of the cup and bounced out. Sarazen, who goes to Nassau yearly for a sunburn, had won the open championship of the Bahama Islands. In St. Augustine, Fla., Glenna Collett, favorite daughter of Providence...
...Glory flight. Founded three and a half years ago, the Mirror was Mr. Hearst's reply to the challenge of the Daily News (Chicago Tribune-owned tabloid) for supremacy among the gum-chewers. Although the Mirror has today a circulation of 450,000 it lags far behind the Daily News, which has 1,225,000. The younger pornoGraphic of Bernarr Macfadden...
...jammed down over his eyes. In front of him, not managing to eclipse him, but successfully blocking his way saunters the debonair man of the world, his hat of excellent vintage but considerably battered--probably with a hole or two in it--turned down in front and up behind with perfect studied carelessness...
...make you forget that the same branch was held in the same position in the Caucasus a month ago. The Wainwright Sisters sang in the Duncanesque manner and "Mephistophele" made a pleasant enough operatic tableau. But for a general opinion one is obliged to rely again on the lady behind, who clucked at the nonchalant and almost naked Formosan headhunter, saying, "We'd look like that too, if we didn't get any attention...
William McAndrew, ousted superintendent of Chicago schools (see p. 35), was applauded loudly when he said: "You remember, perhaps, what Dr. Eliot said to us not so many years ago: 'The fear of losing one's job has kept education in America fifty years behind its possible improvement.' . . . If I read the times aright, the chambers of commerce, the Lowells, the associations of mayors and governors will succeed in their protests against the rising costs of education. Then our magnificent high schools will follow in the tracks of Napoleon the Little to an inglorious end at some...