Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adjustments (there were five White House Christmas trees to trim), the President worked away in his office. Late in the afternoon he began dictating the speech he will deliver to the Pan-American Congress in Havana .next fortnight. After dark, he joined Mrs. Coolidge and drove to Sherman Square, behind the Treasury Building. Thousands of Washingtonians awaited them. While motors tooted and church bells rang and the Marine Band played Cantique de Noël, the President touched a button and lit up the Capital's Christmas tree. Soon after, the Washington throngs trooped into the White House grounds to sing...
...economy program of his Administration. Four new battleships, costing some $148,000,000, were omitted from the Wilbur list, though building up the U. S. Fleet to a strength permitted under the limitation treaty of 1923 with Britain and Japan was the obvious purpose of the program. The psychology behind the program was apparent. The Geneva conference to discuss further limitation of naval armaments having failed, the Coolidge Administration was determined to build the kind of U. S. Navy which would probably have been built had no Geneva conference ever been held. Few observers credited the understanding of the London...
...General George Washington deserves well of any U. S. Citizen who is glad not to have been born a British subject. How then is it possible that the Communist party has come to such a turning of the ways that Trotsky and 100 lesser great men must be left behind? ", Ihe matter is clear when two facts are remembered: Trotsky represents the doctrine that the Soviet state must never cease to promote "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat, because, until that Revolution comes, Russia herself cannot attain a state of "pure" Lenin Communism, due to the machinations...
Last week, before he had finished his errands, the police dog, struck by a truck, died. Mrs. Price asked that he be allowed to have a grave beside her daughter's grave, but this could not be allowed. So the police dog was buried behind the house where he had lived, and a marble police dog will lie near small Jule Price...
...ring as a candidate for a job more pretentious than being mayor of Beverly Hills, the chances are that comparatively few people would take him seriously, himself perhaps least of all. Such is the power of reputation. And yet it is probable that there is some fire behind the smoke, and that if the movement in California is at all strong Will Rogers might become a Senator. And if he is judged worthy by his own State, the possibility would be by no means unfortunate. For the point on which he might be subject to most criticism would probably prove...