Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the ceremonies began Mrs. Coolidge paused to admire seven nightingales prisoned behind bamboo laced with poinsettias. She fed them several wriggling worms of a rare species raised specially and shipped from Philadelphia. Six brightly insolent flamingoes stalking near picking up their food for themselves...
...cloakroom for the inhabitants of the "Gold Coast House". According to present plans, the University will incorporate Claverly, Randolph, and possibly Russell, into one House. What disposition will be made of Benjamin Hyte's tailoring shop has not yet been announced. Bob Lampoon, for so many years the power-behind-the-throne and genuis of all Lampoon wit will be accepted tentatively as janitor of the new eating plant. His continuance in this position is conditional on good behavior...
...rules, which will go into effect this fall, will not affect the language requirements, as students with four years of French and German behind them will have little difficulty with these barriers. They will, however, enable students to omit the more elementary courses in these languages, such as French 1 and 2, and concentrate at the beginning of their Freshman year on more advanced work...
...unknown assailant who struck Dr. George Kovacs, chiropodist, of 125, Tremont Street over the head and dashed from his office at 5 o'clock last Friday, left behind him an overcoat which contained the plans for the new Harvard Gymnasium, it was learned last night at Police Headquarters. He had stolen the plans, which were in the form of blue-prints, from a contractor on the Wellesley-Boston train last Wednesday morning, and was in the Doctor's office having his foot treated when the assault was committed. A warrant has been sworn out for the criminal, but the police...
...charge of sedition. Although acquitted by the court, he was set upon by a mob of Fascists as he was leaving the courtroom, and barely escaped with his life. As a result of this affair he was obliged to flee from the country, leaving all his property behind to be confiscated by the Fascists. He has the distinction of being one of the two men who have been deprived of their nationality by the Fascists...