Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Setsu Matsudaira, fiancee of Prince Chichibu, who is brother of the Emperor and heir apparent to the throne of Japan, tripped gracefully from the Shinyomaru, sheltered herself behind her father, Japanese ambassador to the U. S. Buddhist pilgrims beat incessantly upon their hand drums and invoked the heavenly Lotus. Yokohama school children piped shrill greetings to the girl who may be their Empress. Only Prince Chichibu, restrained by chill etiquette, remained in Tokyo, impatiently awaited his betrothed...
...business of the Manhattan Putnams is publishing. Major George Haven Putnam, 84-year-old son of the founder of the business, last week demonstrated that he does not lag behind his able nephew, George Palmer Putnam, or his grandnephew, David Binney Putnam, in exercising the sinew of publishing, publicity. When newsgatherers interviewed Major Putnam upon his return from a visit to England, he was ready for them with alarming news. He had never, he said, formally become a U. S. citizen. He was in the habit of voting in England as well as in the U. S. Further...
...problem in contempt which the Senate left behind was settled last week by a jury of eight men, four women. Col. Robert Wright Stewart, chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, was acquitted of contempt charges arising from his refusal to answer questions put to him by the Senate Committee on Public Lands...
Then, with the budget about to be voted down, came, as in Polish fairy tales, the surprise. A door behind the Tribune of the Sejm flew open. Once more the frayed field uniform, the old sword, the drooping ferocious mustachios: PILSUDSKI...
...Nash Motors Co. at Kenosha, Wis., also has been in merger discussions. But doughty President Charles W. Nash has been "sitting tight," saying nothing. Last week he let it be known that behind locked gates and doors his engineers are redesigning the Nash motor and body to improve speed and chic of present models...