Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because he thought taxes on estates are too easily evaded when left to the States to levy*and because it irks him to see fortunes made in the West and taken East to be spent, enjoyed, inherited. Lately, however, Iowa has favored repealing the inheritance tax, too. Pressure from behind as well as above persuaded Mr. Green to accept a post which he refused last year. Awaiting the Senate's confirmation in his new office, Mr. Green told the House that "in the anticipated event there is much to regret in many ways...
...Mayor Walker was standing on a reviewing platform in New Orleans with 300-pound Mayor Arthur O'Keefe. They were watching white-robed Negroes lead mules through the streets. The mules were attached to creaking floats filled with masked and strangely costumed debutantes, bankers, brokers and cotton kings. Behind the masks were eyes that had an unmistakable champagne glitter, for New Orleans was celebrating the pre-Lenten festival that seven roistering French students began a century...
...close similarity between the elementary courses taken by freshmen and the mechanically preparatory system of the secondary school. This similarity, as President Lowell has said, is forced upon the college by inadequate grooming. If French 2 must come to Sever it is because "senior French" was not far behind or, in another sense, because it was too far behind...
Black and silver Cito von der Marktfeste, a German shepherd, strode into the ring like a buccaneer. He was tall at the shoulder, his tail swung behind him like a curved scimitar in a tasselled scabbard, his mouth curled with an ironic courtesy. He regarded the spectators with complete composure, his lean face masking carefully but not completely its sneer. Intimidated by his arrogance, the women who sat nearest the ring applauded its proud and villainous visitor...
...Hugo Hoffman & two offspring, scurried quickly to their rooms, from the half opened doors of which they peeped down at the mongrel with frightened faces. Eleven-year-old Benjamin Guieto, observing the terrified women and children, jumped out the window and got a policeman. The policeman came up behind the prowling mongrel and shot him dead...