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Word: behinder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These make him wince, so he seeks to shield himself and his record behind a religious issue?an issue which he himself raised unfairly in this campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Employes, Appointees | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...King, behind his Van Dyke beard, is safe from impudent lenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Suffering Royalty | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...last March from Lisbon to "row" across the Atlantic to New York. This canoe, the Deutsche Sport, arrived in Saint Thomas a month ago (TIME, Aug. 13) and left Porto Rico two weeks later, bound for Florida. The southeastern skies grew dark and a huge hungry wind came up behind Franz Romer. He has not reached Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ships at Sea | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Villon spoke the jargon of the Coquillards, a medieval freemasonry of blackguards who systematically plundered, lechered, toped throughout France. He wrote vigorous verses, high poetry. Behind these two varying expressions was a weathercock temperament. Born in 1431, he was raised from the age of seven in the home of a benign Parisian priest. Francois took both the bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Paris. One midnight, when the priest had gone to bed, the student crept out the door, made his way to the Pomme de Pin. There he swilled many a mugful. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Many a Mugful | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Here is the opportunity for the "Laugh, Clown. Laugh'' pishtish which was ignored in The Jazz Singer, when instead of going on with the show, Jolson went to synagog, substituted for his father, the dying cantor. With his son dead in the hospital, Al takes his turn behind the footlights, sings "Sonny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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