Word: followed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pair cavorted, banknotes fluttered after her like autumn leaves. Scandalized, the Casino management detailed two croupiers to follow Spendthrift Josephine Baker, famed blackamoor danseuse, around the ballroom, collecting banknotes which they returned to her when her ebullience had subsided...
...nuptial experiment. In the first few lines, she and her fiancé express satisfaction with last night's trial. To make it doubly sure, they exchange partners with their unconsulted host and hostess. Miss Gish completes an affair with host, but fiancé quails before hostess. Then follow two acts of confessions, recriminations, door-slammings, to end with four-way felicity the way it should be (according to the movies). Despite such items as "I love him!" "Then that's a very good reason not to marry him," despite Miss Gish's grotesque make-up and quaintly...
During the past three years the number of men taking the Language Requirements examinations has lessened considerably according to figures obtained yesterday in the Recorder's office in University Hall. The percentage of men passing the various Latin French, and German examinations however was shown by a chart to follow no trend the passing of the barriers depending directly on the preparation of the candidates the demands of the tests markers of cetera...
...credit for the Requirements. In the September tests of three years ago 1169 students made attempts at passing the elementary and reading requirements whereas the September exams this year were of possible service to only 862. The numbers taking the examinations in the falls of 1926 and 1927 likewise follow this descending scale...
...because the Republicans have sought him, have courted his influence. Actually he is and has always been totally independent, quieter than his late friend Senator LaFollette, firmer than his ponderous friend Senator Borah. Something unbending, something chilled by logic, leads him to conclusions whither not even political hotheads will follow, such as the abolition of the "lame duck" sessions of Congress and direct popular election of the President without benefit of politics...