Word: bodyguarding
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...White House reception given by President Thomas Jefferson.* In 1809, at President John Madison's inaugural ball, the Marine Band played a special "Madison's March." Since then it has played a new march at every inaugural. The Marine Band was General La Fayette's bodyguard when he visited Yorktown and Mount Vernon in 1824. Andrew Jackson had the band in to play for the first Easter Egg Rolling and White House Children's Party. Abraham Lincoln asked the band to Gettysburg when he made his famed address; in his time...
...never existed, India's Viceroy, his long legs encased in white kerseymere knee breeches, drove smiling through the streets of New Delhi to open the eleventh annual session of the Chamber of Princes. Bearded lancers with gay fluttering pennons trotted in front of his State carriage. A bodyguard perched behind holding a huge umbrella over the viceregal head...
...tabloid Daily Mirror. Directly and indirectly they made Walter Winchell news last week: directly because his colyum was on the street only six hours before Gangster Vincent Coll was machine-gunned to death in a telephone booth, and Colyumist Winchell (who had been frightened into getting a police bodyguard) was summoned before the Grand Jury to explain his advance information; indirectly because they precipitated a new climax in a long-standing squabble between Winchell and Publisher Albert John Kobler of the Mirror...
While President Hoover was sitting with his Cabinet one morning last week, an alarming report reached his bodyguard. Police reserves tramped into the White House grounds, deployed, guarded the gates. Pennsylvania Avenue shrieked with motorcycle sirens. Secret Service men issued curt, severe commands. Excited newshawks flocked about. Cameramen looked to their plates. Trucks bearing sound newsreel equipment lumbered up into position. Idlers paused, gaped, made throngs. When Vice President Curtis left the Cabinet Meeting, a bodyguard hopped into his car beside him.* All was in martial readiness about the White House to meet a reported Red demonstration for Unemployment relief...
...terminal. He left a note in the cashdrawer: "I 0 U $20. If I crack up, present this to my wife for collection." Just before taking off from Newark on his last flight he sent a message over the company's teletype: "I have the $20. Have a bodyguard meet my plane...