Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rolling around the Treasury behind an escort of cavalry, Mr. Coolidge and The Chief heard the throat-rasping cheers of early-comers in the stands along the route to the Capitol. The Coolidge silk hat moved up and down in frequent response to this acclamation. The Chief's headpiece moved less frequently. One irreverent youth screamed "Oh you Herbie!" from the sidewalk...
Also, of course, Mr. & Mrs. Coolidge left the White House behind. On inauguration eve they had Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, Senator Curtis and Mrs. E. E. Gann, the Senator's sister, to dinner and showed the new President and first lady their new quarters...
...James" he is sometimes called for his courtly manners. He is full of funny stories, at which he cackles broadly himself. Behind the affable exterior is a sharp business-like personality that achieves difficult objectives. What he knows or thinks about the War Department it is impossible to say, but until last week he probably knew and thought very little about...
...skippers. His eyes have wrinkles of sun and humor in their corners. His bald head and his face, with its Adams nose, beaked like a New England cliff, are tanned by salty weather. His hands are hard and veined; he wears no rings. His eyes are clear-water blue behind old-fashioned spectacles...
Dean Hampden is the only actor-manager, in the sense of the term as it was applied to such as Edwin Booth and Richard Mansfield, in the U. S. today. He is the financial and artistic force "behind every play shown in the Walter Hampden Theatre on upper Broadway. A beardless patriarch, aged only 48, he follows his profession with perhaps sterner self-discipline but with more self-consciousness than his brothers, Paul, John, and Malcolm, have developed in following their respective professions of painting, law and literature...