Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder whether we have decided to hide behind Neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not sure that it is always right to be safe...
...particularly if 17 Senators are involved. Newspapers the world over soon headlined that Franklin Roosevelt had placed the U. S. "frontier" or "first line of defense" in France. As Chief Executive he had laid down for the Senators a foreign policy aligning the U. S. more strongly than ever behind France and England. As Commander in Chief he had declared his determination to back those democracies for defensive war by every means short of actual manpower...
Before last week's bout. Manager Grippo performed his dressing-room hocus-pocus as usual. Then, for good measure, he went to Tiger Fox, put the Indian sign on him behind his back. Just before the opening gong, Hypnotist Grippo ambled over to the Negro's corner, tried to catch his eye, while 2,000 squealing Beaconites went wild in the gallery...
...wife was Dutch, his second White Russian, his third a pro-Nazi German. In 1937, after his third marriage, he retired from the directorship of Royal Dutch-Shell. At 70, worth $200,000,000, he was still ruddy, still sharp-eyed, still apoplectic in his hates, still pulling strings behind the European scene...
Whether it is actually "record-breaking crowds" that bring about these periodical hold-over weeks, or whether there is something mysterious going on behind the scenes, is a question that has always intrigued us. Strange it is that the hold-over bug seems so frequently to strike several theatres at once; it is as if some deep, dark conspiracy were being hatched, either in Boston or else further West. On the other hand, the Boston palaces are notoriously jealous of their prestige,--as concerned with public relations as a Freshman on the Dean's List; perhaps the whole thing...