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Word: behinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glass of beer behind the bar (as he was too self-conscious to do in his Oxford days) he drew a foaming schooner. "Your health!" he tasted the foam, then left the glass up on the bar where eager hands seized, drained it. "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" roared the bums. Perhaps abashed, Edward drifted toward the door, passed through the crowd with several handshakes and a jest. Thend sought a moment's respite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limehouse Night | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...visual factors of the production--always in a ritual of extreme importance--it is hard to find any others that come up to the level of the thirteenth century set. The lighting obviously, hampered by the practical difficulties the museum offered was aucortain, inaccurate, and showed little plan behind its questionable striving or "effects". Of the costumes only those on which little trouble had been taken--spice, in fact the best, borrowed from the recent production of the "Orange Comedy are very successful. The costumes of the more important characters ranged from the operatic ridiculousness of the High Priest "tastefully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINDS PERFORMANCE OF "WISEMAN" RATHER SHAKY | 12/17/1926 | See Source »

...above all he is that. The power greater than that of instilling knowledge, that of stimulating the imagination, is his. Gilbert Murray is soon to leave Harvard, but he will leave behind him things intangible yet real--personal inspiration, and a realization that it is a mistake ever "to lose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO GILBERT MURRAY | 12/17/1926 | See Source »

Following the presentation of prizes there will be a showing of a short news reel and Wallace Beery in "Behind the Front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Christmas Dinner Tonight | 12/16/1926 | See Source »

...perimeter. Subsoil mining followed as a matter of course, but subsoil mining is expensive. It was in forming the great mining syndicates which bought out the open pit "little fellows" and sunk deep mines that such men as Cecil Rhodes amassed great fortunes- and Barney Barnato was not far behind Rhodes in diamond wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dumping Diamonds | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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