Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major H. O. D. Segrave, one-time British aviator, braced himself behind the wheel of a 24-cylinder, 1,000-h.p., 4-ton automobile of British make (Sunbeam); zipped along the tide-smoothed sand at Daytona Beach, Fla.; set a new record for the straightaway mile, 203.792 mi. per hour. Task completed, Major Segrave dismounted to receive prompt recognition from onlooker John D. Rockefeller Sr., in the shape of four shiny new dimes...
That genuine antique, "I can't read in the daytime, I went to night school," may well have originated at the College of the City of New York. Of all large universities, few have carried education to so many young people whom circumstance keeps behind ribbon counters and typewriters during business hours. The administration of such an institution is arduous, requiring as it does, not only a "night shift" faculty but manipulation of the polyglot problems that arise among the offspring of a big-city population. But, like a 24-hour newspaper, City College employs a night executive...
...mile away. Driving at his customary 25 miles per hour, even though the Chicago-Detroit highway was comparatively empty, he had nothing to vex him but a drizzling rain and a bleak landscape. Suddenly, as he crossed the Rouge River bridge, he heard the roar of a big car behind him and a Studebaker drew up alongside, smashed into him, sped on toward Detroit. Mr. Ford's Ford spun around crazily, bounced over a six-inch curb, tumbled down a 15-foot embankment, came to rest with the aid of a tree. That tree was a better stopping point than...
Clare, who has married well, dresses her, takes her to polo matches, rubs away the dust of Sussex and the bloom of spontaneity. Percival Fream, rich, meticulous, impotent, gives her first a diamond ring, then a marriage which includes all the luxuries save one. Mary gives dances behind the bright windows and in the wide gardens of Hill House but she cannot escape the knowledge that, for a steady diet, potatoes are more satisfying than candied rose leaves...
Once Truth is left behind, the section on Beauty rises somewhat in tone and approaches the level on which one expects to find observations on the other fellow's habits of mind. None except the most stodgy Babbitt can do aught but cry "Hear, hear" to an accusation that "the films are the literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly...