Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost equally secretive was Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert, when cornered by ship-news reporters on the Berengaria. With hands clasped behind his back, Mr. Gilbert rose slightly on the balls of his feet and observed: "You must realize, gentlemen, that this is a good time for me to be silent...
...bogeymen with which the Soviet press scares Russians was added, last week,* a potent U. S. citizen 89 years of age, gaunt, and frail with parchment skin and eyes that seem always sunken behind dark-lensed spectacles. A searing editorial in Besbozhnik (The Godless), famed anti-religious organ of the Soviet State, revealed, as horrid fact, that 65.000 "Baptist Bibles" have recently been printed in Russia. Since someone must have paid for them, and since John Davison Rockefeller Sr. is rich, philanthropic and Baptist, Editor Shpitzberg of Besbozhnik pointed accusingly across the Atlantic at Rockefeller Sr., while indicating John Davison...
...Voyage. At distant ports on seven seas the Commissioners, panting, embarked for London. At New York Aunt Evangeline, shedding her army uniform and taking an assumed name, departed secretly on the Olympic. Reluctantly she left behind her horses, dogs and Pekingese pup Tiny, for British quarantine regulations denied their entrance. Arriving in London, she was not granted permission to see her sick brother. She engaged a suite at the Howard Hotel. Flowers sent by friends, baskets heaped with fruits, made it a bower. Niece Catherine did not send gifts...
Play grew faster in the third period when Wood scored for Harvard. C. C. Cunningham '32 carried the puck from behind his own net to within a few feet of the opposing team's, but a fast play by Manning caused Cunningham to go in the net instead of the puck. Gilmor, Frothingham Score for Seconds...
...time, and the costumes, rented for the occasion in New York, have been retained in Cambridge. If the play is presented again, all the former participants have signified their willingness to take part in it. The patronesses, moreover, many of whom were erroneously reported as having withdrawn, stand behind "Fiesta" as before...