Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witness chair of a Brooklyn, N. Y. divorce trial last week "making horns." Carrie Cooper raised her hands to her forehead, sticking up two fingers, and made a laboriously ugly face. That, she said, was what her 36-year-old mistress, Mrs. Josephine Marotta, had done behind the back of her old husband, Giacomo, who is just twice...
...Marotta hotly defended herself. Everyone knew she was a good woman, she said. Everyone knew she had been acquitted of manslaughter after shooting her lover, Louis Gumas, six years ago. She had never made the cornuto sign behind her husband's back. She had not made love behind his back with her divorced husband Thomas Catanzaro; nor with Dr. Charles Stoerzer, sometime house physician of the Raymond Street Jail (her sometime residence); nor with "a tall, thin...
...single flaw marred Odets' defense of his play. Whatever people might have been saying behind fans, only one Broadway critic had said any of the things about Rocket to the Moon that Odets was defending himself against...
Lustily singing this battle hymn, 10,000 Washingtonians jampacked ten special trains last week, journeyed to Manhattan. Marching up Broadway behind a 90-piece brass band decked in Indian costume, the hilarious invaders were amazed to see no excitement. Back home in Washington the rah-rah spirit was everywhere. On the streets, in the night clubs, at the movies, in the Supreme Court corridors, people were humming...
Adams scored five runs in the first inning, seven in the second, and five in the fifth. Bob Binkerd caught for the Gold Coasters. Dick Cleaves and Jim Monkman pitched for Leverett while Jim Langian was behind the plate...