Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little reception knots formed about the House floor. Veterans, committee chairmen, held court. The four women members, all in black, greeted their many admirers. New York's Snell (Rules Committee) stood behind his aisle table, frowning, sharpening a pencil with a blunt watch chain knife. Leader Tilson beamed at his flock and rearranged neatly typed resolutions on blue paper. The galleries, splotched with color, were long ago overflowing. Mrs. Alice Longworth, the Speaker's wife, was there, incognito, because she failed to remove her brown hat and reveal her gleaming hair...
...power and irrigation dam (world's highest) in Black Canyon on the Colorado River. Mostly, the arguments have seen Arizonans pitted against sons of the six other States drained by the Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson, to obtain additional drinking water for Los Angeles, flood control for California's sub-sea-level Imperial Valley, and electric power for cities as distant as Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Denver, San Diego. Arizona has doggedly called it a "power grab," a selfish California...
Last week the "jiggle" was a boiling, foaming wake wave, and from the Enterprise's short, rakishly tilted funnels spewed enough smoke and steam at roaring forced draft to perceptibly darken the "blue." Behind lay British East Africa and the small, busy port of Dar-Es-Saalam, where Edward of Wales had taken ship. Ahead, beyond the Red Sea, beyond the Mediterranean, beyond Europe and the Channel lay the beloved Sovereign of an Empire. Radio flashes told that pleurisy had been followed by pneumonia, complicated by Bright's disease...
...families and individuals who have recently moved cityward. The results to be expected from "a vigorous enforcement of decrowding" are, according to Il Duce: 1) Rural begetting by deported fathers of more babes than they would beget in cities; 2) Relief of urban unemployment, since those deported will leave behind them many an open job; 3) Creation of a large pool of deported peasant laborers who will toil to achieve Signor Mussolini's famed program of "internal land reclamation" upon which the State purposes to spend $375,000,000 during the next 14 years...
Brattle Street is busy today, and the elms that covered what was once the road to the west bordered by country houses now wave over whirring traffic. The house at the head of Longfellow Park peeps from behind its screen of shrubbery as it did seventy years ago, and those who pass the Craigie House turn and look, or do not turn and pass, knowing vaguely that a poet once lived there...