Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thos. Cook & Son, travel agents, reported an astonishing influx of queries and booking orders by U. S. business agents anxious to follow behind the Hoover party by the earliest possible ships, to explore new markets and capitalize Hoover Goodwill...
Even cynics sympathized with Peasant Juliu Maniu as he left the Royal Palace. More than a "tender but lovely hope" is needed to keep his Cabinet afloat with a temporarily unbalancable budget. That could be done by former Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano because he had behind him the great fiscal tycoons of Rumania. The new peasant Cabinet must not only worry through without such assistance, but must wage next month a national Parliamentary campaign. Even best wishers of Prime Minister Maniu were forced to admit, last week, that his little Ship of State is tossed on perilous seas...
When Diderot, leader of France's 18th century philosophes, edited his great Encyclopaedia, he was harassed and vilified. Valuable plates were destroyed by Government agents; behind his back, articles were viciously, cruelly emasculated...
Wong is a Chinese character but as crooked as the letter S. He tosses a Caucasian girl behind a secret panel and in the last act gives a party at which there is a fire-eating magician. Also, in the last act, there is the San Francisco earthquake and fire. The plot deals with dope-peddling; Slippery Jim (Robert Bentley) is the chief dope-peddler; he leaves the racket and marries a pure, sweet girl. Wong is killed in the earthquake...
Radio seethed at Post 20, boiled its way up 22½ points to close at 297½. Short, stubby, Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, Radio specialist, rumpled his red hair, blinked behind his glasses. Far away in Chicago, Arthur W. Cutten, bull operator in a dozen stocks, declared Montgomery Ward will reach 1,000. Grey-haired Gen. Oliver B. Bridgman stood at Post 2, noted U. S. Steel transactions in his book. They totaled 160,000 shares...