Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Watson. In Indiana, Candidate Watson & friends found a kettle as black as their pot. They found, or said they found, Will H. Hays & friends behind the Hoover candidacy there. No denial coming direct from Candidate Hoover, the Watson-Hoover battle in Indiana temporarily assumed the aspect of local gang...
...House is a sporting body. It loves a fight. And the House is a sportsmanlike body. It loves to see the biter bitten, especially after the biter has barked loudly and snapped from behind...
...good repair by the inmates. Each cell has individual toilet facilities and a catalogue of the prison library of 5,000 volumes. There is also a baseball field, a brass band, a monthly newspaper of which Sheriff Simeon Pease is inordinately proud. Last week, two newspapermen took up residence behind Wethersfield walls, were forthwith made editors of the prison paper. Their flamboyant history led the inmates to anticipate a paper that would be edited with imagination, gusto, craftiness...
When reporters go to Captain Dollar about anything they always end by asking him about his past and always, sitting behind his pale oak desk in the Robert Dollar Building in San Francisco, he answers questions in a deep, dry, old man's voice interrupting himself to get into his favorite subject, China. And then, seeing the pencils stop moving, he remembers the story. "Why don't you put in something about my grandfather? He had a ship himself, you know. Oh, yes, a great big ship. It sank...
After the War someone asked him, "What is the position of U. S. shipping?"-"We are where we were," said Captain Dollar. Though most shippers in western waters thought we were a long way behind or ahead of where we were, Captain Dollar started in 1924 a service of ships named after Presidents, carrying passengers and cargoes round the world from New York with 21 ports of call...