Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...south end of the room, unsurrounded, in careful formation, stand four people. The reception guest suddenly recognizes the President. The next figure is, of course, the First Lady. Between them and the guest is a military aide, and behind the aide, at the President's elbow, a bodyguard...
...President and his Lady, preceded by aides, and followed by the Cabinet et ux., march sedately out of the Blue Room, across the hall, up the broad stone steps to the upstairs sitting room. Sliding metal gates on the stair click shut behind them...
...over it. Suddenly there was a blinding flash. An automatic safety device set the brakes. The train was stalled with its third and fourth cars over the flames. Smoke filled the air. The ant passengers cursed, prayed and moaned, beat, trampled and rescued one another. Three more trains halted behind the first in the confusion...
...unchallengeable statement by H. R. H. that 1,400,000 Britons are out of work. Premise Two consisted of the speaker's royal testimony that on his recent travels to every part of the Globe he has personally seen that British salesmanship and merchandizing methods overseas are still far behind the standard set by competition. (No one doubts that this was so, prior to 1914, when German salesmen were stealing British business from Siam to South America; but H. R. H. was bold indeed to charge that British salesmanship still lags behind...
...Prince himself was there in a box directly behind the auctioneer's desk. The night before he had paid a surprise visit to the stable, stopped at each stall for a last look and pat. He lingered longest at the stall of Miss Muffet, his favorite hunter. Afterward he had stopped in at the local British Legion ball and danced with the wife of his stud groom...