Word: bodyguard
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...shot at the King. As muezzins wailed from the minarets, the tall, dark-haired Countess, dressed in a white satin gown, mounted a coach drawn by four prancing white stallions, a gift from the Hungarian Government, drove through the mud-caked streets to the Royal Palace. Protected by a bodyguard of 1 ,000 soldiers, King Zog received his bride-to-be, escorted her into the library, where his prized collection of antique firearms covers the green and yellow walls. There Heqmet Delvina, vice president of the Parliament, united the couple in a simple civil ceremony, since Zog is a Moslem...
...Southern States, may not succeed themselves. Not in the least perturbed by his constituents' persistent curiosity about his personal bank account. Governor Sholtz reached a precipitous decision to run for the Senate last January, soon descended on the State with a retinue of press adviser and combined chauffeur & bodyguard...
...choirs and hot bands, munch free handouts or purchase raffle tickets from the 75 booths. No Negro gathering is complete without Joe Louis and he was on hand opening day to cut a ribbon across the door. As usual he was surrounded with admiring pickaninnies who well know his bodyguard's penchant of giving dollar bills to moppets so they will leave Joe alone...
Cinema Comedian Eddie Cantor told Washington's Hadassah chapter that Nazis had threatened him by telephone because of his Jewish activities. Said he: "Even in Hollywood where the motion picture industry is run by Jews, I have a bodyguard...
...seamen were hung, 40 others imprisoned without food. For their edification Magellan offered the chained exhibit of a big friendly savage who. before he starved to death three weeks later, had almost chewed himself out of his shackles. When Magellan's cruelty threatened to alienate even his own bodyguard, he arranged to shipwreck the 40 mutineers on a reef, succeeded only in losing a ship. At the Strait of Magellan his food ship St. Anthony deserted, was never heard from again. Scurvy struck in the Pacific, rations shrank to leather ship fittings, sawdust, rats, dead comrades' giblets. After...