Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...along the ocean to witness an almost incredible spectacle. Their mayor, one Anthony M. Ruffu Jr., was being joggled along, uncomfortably enthroned upon a curious vehicle. Sitting beside him, dressed up as Father Neptune, a Broadway comedian named Eddie Dowling bowed and grimaced and made remarks which were inaudible. Behind this incongruous pair, an interminable succession of similar vans, decorated in fantastic style to resemble skyscrapers, vegetable gardens, bird cages, beaches, groves or prairie lands, conveyed 74 young women along the corduroy boardwalk. Each of the young women was in some suitable disguise which was really almost no disguise...
...editorial announcement inserted are certain credos: "American readers have proved . . . their absorbing interest in records of success from all phases of life. ... In a country where preferment awaits those who help themselves, a record of success becomes a lesson in opportunity. . . . There lies behind the striving of each winner a story that contains both interest and inspiration. This magazine will devote itself to discovering the thrills and the lessons in these life stories...
...through the long day they plodded painfully through the water. Favorite after favorite burned up and was pulled into his pilot boat. Michael Hamburg labored miles, indomitably behind the tinkling bell of his pilot boat. He, stone blind, finally gave up. One man was seized with mumps. Edward Keating, winner of the Lake George marathon, was dragged out, cramped. Lee J. Smith, legless swimmer, lost his chance for the prize by rescuing a drowning opponent. Byron Summers, the California "flying fish," swam to the tune of a band in his boat, swam many miles, caught cramps when in second place...
Fourth day. Another 500 miles was behind the Pride of Detroit as she coasted to earth at Stamboul, Turkey. Said the military commandant at the field: "In the name of Turkish aviators of the future I greet and welcome you . . . ." Pleased with this courtesy the aviators prepared to hasten on toward Aleppo. Official Turkey ordered them to wait while the red tape was unwound from an official permit to fly over Turkish territory...
...England flying westward. Many, many hours later, after the St. Raphael's fuel was long exhausted, came reports of fierce head winds. She must have met heavy fog. But no reports of two men in a monoplane who had set out across the sea or of the Princess behind them down the tiny corridor from the cockpit, sitting surrounded by red hat boxes and a little basket in a wicker chair fastened by one leg to the cabin floor...