Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have had sufficient contacts with hobos to be surprised at the definition given by you in the footnote page 54, TIME, June 24, for blind baggage. I have always understood the blind baggage to be the narrow forward platform of the foremost baggage or mail car, immediately behind the tender. This is one of the three points at which hobos may attempt a free ride on a passenger or express train, the other two being the roof of a car and the rods...
...When Director Dawes quit in 1922, Assistant Roop quit. When Mr. Dawes went last spring to Santo Domingo, he recalled Budgetman Roop to his side to assist in preparing a financial system in that little republic. When General Dawes returned to be ambassador to Britain, Col. Roop was left behind to put their Santo Domingan work into operation...
...owned the spaghetti joint over which the gang met. Rico's cop-murder alarmed Sam. Conservative, Sam protested: "Love of God, didn't I tell you no gunwork?" Rico retaliated by reducing Sam's share of the spoils. Sam acknowledged defeat graciously. Reason: the gang's best guns were behind ruthless Rico. So Rico rose to leadership of the gang...
...rival territory. Everything was daisy? until one night a screaming woman recognized Joe on his dance floor as one of the principals in the roadhouse job. They arrested Joe. Without much third-degree, he turned State's evidence. Soon the "bulls" got Otero, Rico's faithful bodyguard, who stayed behind to shoot it out while Rico ran. And soon after that a detective got Rico in a corner. There was a long spurt of flame. Rico felt it in the chest. He fell. "Mother of God," he cried, a bit theatrically, "is this the end of Rico...
...United Press. Alone, he traveled by motor, horse and foot 300 miles from the railhead at Marrakesh to the scene of the ambush, sent the first direct word of the battle. At Meknes base hospital Lieut. Briard. wounded in the first skirmish, told how he had lain behind a desert bush and watched his wounded comrades being stabbed to death by Moors...