Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another way of saying that the Republicans now realize that the Democrats have Big Money behind them this year...
Boots kicked in cellar windows. Shoulders crashed open the door. Then, while detectives stumbled down steep rickety stairs or dropped in through windows, "Diamond Jew" Rubenstein and friends cupped palms to their mouths, leaned back, and amazingly swallowed diamonds. Uncut stones too big to swallow were flung madly anywhere-behind the bar, into corners, out windows...
...Lord Birkenhead-typical of his youth as a smart lawyer named F. E. Smith-were flatly contradicted by Dictator Mussolini thus: "The oft-repeated platitude that somewhere in every strong man there is the influence of a woman, is a woven fancy. That there is a feminine 'power behind the throne' is a flimsy tissue of the imagination. No woman ever has been the dominant influence in a strong man's life...
...Heron of Reading, Pa., finished two strokes behind Compston. Aubrey Boomer of St. Cloud, France, who looked like a winner, blew up near the finish...
...third son, Prince Henry, paraded to the barrier on Jehu,† a tall gelding which belonged to his friend, Capt. E. A. Elgee. A fairly large gallery cheered when the Hussar Duke got off to a clever start. Coming into the stretch, he was a length and a half behind Aquilon, last year's winner. The Hussar Duke urged his horse, stooping in his stirrups, but Jehu was tired. Aquilon finished first, Mr. Polly second, Jehu third. Bookmakers made money, but several of the Duke's friends, officers of the loth Hussars, lost more than they could afford...