Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Lincoln-Washington battalion of Americans suffered its heaviest blow of the war. Caught behind the enemy lines as the Rightists smashed through, the battalion tried to fight its way back in small groups. Nine men attempted to swim the swift Ebro River, three got across. At week's end only 150 of the 450 Americans had been accounted...
While the old Prince assured his 10,200 German-speaking subjects that he had abdicated because of his age, observers opined that apprehension over possible annexation by his new neighbor. Greater Germany, lay behind his move. Prince Franz Paul has no desire to be on the throne if Nazi Germany gobbles Liechtenstein. His wife, whom he married in 1929, is a wealthy Viennese Jewess and local Liechtenstein Nazis have already singled her out as their anti-Semitic "problem." The new Prince has no Jewish connections, is unmarried...
Joseph Lee, Jr., only member of the School Committee opposed to backing Timility, thought it a shame to suppress "anything that might allow people to think and to keep their minds off such froth and foolishness as you find on every newstand." He added that the city officials behind the censorship of printed matter are "conservative and too apt to make a flight from life...
...tell the love story of worldly, malicious, 34-year-old Pierre Costals and pretty, innocent, 21-year-old Solange Dandillot. Author de Montherlant begins by giving pages of letters written to Costals, a successful novelist, by his feminine admirers. He writes a lugubrious essay on matrimonial advertisements (''Behind every one of these advertisements a face, a body, an unknown something that, after all, may well be a heart...
...Solange with a patience that astonishes even himself. He raves about her legs, her eyes, her hair, her ears, her wrist watch, her vaccination marks, her manners and the fact that she does not read his novels, "When she blows her little nose," he exclaims, "it's always behind a newspaper (moderate in its views) so that I shan't see her do anything...