Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was some hesitation at first on the part of the ushers whether to look on the stage or in the audience, but a second alarm, obviously in the rear of the theater convinced them that the orchestra was not the guilty party. The search then started off in earnest, the duet becoming a sextet almost coincidentally. To the consternation of some and the amusement of all--excepting, of course, the management--the six alarm clocks were finally found tied to the hatracks under six seats on the main floor of the theater...
...plane resembled a great, wide box kite with" struts supporting vertical and horizontal rudders far out in the rear. The engine was at one side of the flyer's seat, so that if the plane tumbled it would not fall on him. Two skids projected in front to prevent the plane somersaulting on landing...
...many boisterous gentlemen of Mr. Hubbard's day and age who were busily undermining the Constitution in ways with which Mr. Hubbard may be familiar. And I feel sure I have a supporter in the cameraman who was knocked out that afternoon by a flying tackle from the rear by one of Mr. Hubbard's buddies--perhaps another doughty upholder of the country's sacred institutions. Un-Menckenly yours Edward F. Clark...
...newly-appointed superintendent of the Gorgas Foundation is Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, onetime physician to Woodrow Wilson. He will shortly leave for Panama to assume his duties...
...Bonfils: "That [burial] has now been done for the benefit of the subscriber and of the advertiser, tending to create in our beloved section a better newspaper feeling and co-operation . . . making this a better and a more wholesome country in which to live, rear our families and transact our business. . . . These two papers are going to try to deserve the respect and friendship of each other...