Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peter begins to drill 1,000 picked men for his bodyguard. A monk, Golovin, comes to assassinate him. Peter snatches away his dagger...
Pale, haggard, he sought the villa of Joseph Farinelli, his wealthy friend. His bodyguard, 20 strong, was swelled by a cordon of Swiss police desperately uneasy lest he be assassinated. Secretly he returned the official calls of his distinguished confréres, who were busy with the final details of the Pact. In these last-minute negotiations he took no part. With the fears and the aloofness of a Sultan he remained secluded until the hour when he must add his pen scratch to the others...
...crowd protested and the official's bodyguard attempted to disperse them. In the melée which followed the frog was dropped, the jar shattered, frog ground to jelly. Infuriated, the mob attempted to rush the guard, belaboring them with fists, sticks and feet. The military official, immobile of face, ordered his men to fire. Eight Chinese fell dead, one a priest...
What was the interest in your announcement in the issue of July 20, Page 1, that Jervis, bodyguard of the President, fell into an elevator shaft and dropped five feet with a crash without the information that the President was following close behind him and was warned of the danger...
...Chamber then became orderly. The Communists reentered, escorted to their seats by stalwart sergeants-at-arms, who remained as a bodyguard. The Fascisti once more broke into raucous approval of their hero-leader and debate began on the Government's foreign policy...