Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Howard Thunderg was behind the plate and Dick Mandrel at first; Evers at second, Bernie Marks at short, and Ernie Smith at third completed the Deacon infield. Put Williams, Bob Seder, and Jim Digel were in the outfield...
...disappointing to Finish behind Princeton, Cornell and Columbia in the annual ivy league event, Harvard had some reason to rejoice as it outdistanced Yale and Dartmouth in the scoring...
Readers Humphrey & Smith's contemporaries will not find their questions naïve. Once a fashionable word (about 1760) and used by boys behind the barn some 20 years ago, "hump" is seldom heard in a sexual sense today. In the magazine (For Men Only) that printed it (and was acquitted of obscenity by a New York City magistrate) the word was used as a noun meaning "prostitute": "I walked at night, asked every hump I passed if she knew a Louise...
...London papers called Mexican President General Lazaro Cardenas a "bandit." After hours of rapidly worsening relations, the envoy of Mexico in London and the envoy of Britain in Mexico City were withdrawn by their respective Governments, together with their whole staffs, except for a diplomatic caretaker who was left behind in each case...
...begin a drive to flatten out the 600 square-mile, cup-like Leftist salient in his central Aragón front lines. This runs from Teruel to the sea. 85 miles away. Some 10,000 Leftists holding the cup were in grave danger of being trapped as Franco forces, behind a punishing artillery barrage and air attack, rolled forward on both sides of the salient. After three days the Leftists backed out, allowed Franco to straighten his lines, which now parallel the vital inland Allepuz to Alcalá de Chivert highway, still in Leftist hands at week...