Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory the court guards the bankrupt's assets, with all the moral rigor of the U. S. behind it. In practice the judge appoints a supposedly disinterested and trustworthy person as receiver who does the actual work, subject only to final court review. The Federal law fixes the service charges a receiver may make upon the assets, ranging from 6% on $500 or less, down to 1% on $10,000 or more. In effect the creditors pay the receiver from funds they would otherwise get. Thus receiverships are profitable political plums whereby many a lawyer swells his income...
From the four guns streamed a hundred bullets. Only eight of them ever reached the brick wall behind the seven targets. One man, all blood, tried to crawl away. A volley at six inches ripped away his head above the ears. The others toppled over into the careless postures of death...
...Hero's fiancee. Her father let the world guess, without assistance, at the time and place of the wedding. Industrious press ferrets brought up Miss Morrow's poems. Her last, in Scribner's, concluded: Still, like a singing lark, I find Rapture to leave the grass behind. And sometimes standing in a crowd My lips are cool against a cloud. ¶ In the midst of the general good feeling, the fatherly New York Times published a report that the Hero's mother, Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, returning from Turkey aboard the S. S. President Wilson...
Tucked away behind the snow-capped peaks of Asiatic Turkey, the Grand National Assembly at Angora passed a bill ruthlessly expelling from the Government services any official who has or takes a non-Turkish wife...
...sheet of concrete, around which the party started to walk. But not Mr. Edison. Always he takes the short cut and across the concrete he walked. It was soft. His shoes sank into it. Consternation came upon his face, then stubbornness. He plodded ahead leaving a string of footprints behind. Mr. Ford was delighted and said something flattering about "the sands of time." He gave orders that the footprints be allowed to harden, furthermore, he made Mr. Edison take off his shoes and leave them in the museum...