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Word: bodyguardsmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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With the Marine Band dinning in his ears, Citizen Hunefeld took note of the bodyguardsmen (secret service) standing about. They could not be too careful guarding the President's life. Some crank might get in. McKinley had been shot that way by a man with a revolver under a handkerchief. President Harding had been asked to wear a bullet-proof vest at his first reception in 1922 but refused. An experienced receptionist, Citizen Hunefeld knew he could not put his hands in his pockets; he had seen women warned to take their hands out from under their furs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: First Down! | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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