Word: escort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...landed in San Domingo to safeguard American and foreign interests during a revolution. He saw service in the Gulf of Mexico in 1904 and commanded the Destroyer Tucker, which was in the second group to reach Queenstown, Ireland, in May, 1917, and operated from Queenstown and later on escort duty in the North Atlantic. In June, 1929, after two years spent in Central American waters, he was detached from command of the U. S. S. Cleveland and assigned to duty at Harvard. He has had two tours of duty as instructor at the Naval Academy and two as a member...
...Cafe, when a woman eyes him through a lorgnette, he pulls out a pair of field-glasses and returns the stare. This somehow gets him acclaimed hero by the crowd. In the Roof Garden he is about to further prove his heroism by ascending in a balloon as escort of Cinemactress Romerantz. Miss Romerantz, however, cancels the ascent since, due to a sudden newspaper strike, her flight would lack publicity. Thus prevented from an ultimate proof of his heroism, Caspar descends to the street level, takes a ride on a ferryboat with his gypsy sweetheart, Paras Veka...
...reported fully recovered but just in case it should go bad again, President Portes Gil persuaded General Calles not to go off, as he had planned, on a European vacation this summer. Also, though Peace was thoroughly restored, a regiment of Mexican soldiers were assigned "as a courtesy" to escort U. S. Ambassador Morrow to the Texas border on his way home to give his daughter in marriage to U. S. Hero Lindbergh...
...Publisher Ochs this and that about U. S. journalism. After the Ochses had gone, President Hoover wrote a speech. Last week President Hoover went to Manhattan, taking his speech with him, the first extra-routine speech of his administration. Publisher Ochs was at the station to meet him, to escort him to a hotel where the Press was assembled. It was the Press in a far larger sense than what the President meets each Tuesday and Friday at noon in his office. This was the Associated Press-a non-partisan organization which collects and distributes news, not for profit...
...Cleveland, secretary-treasurer of Gas Machinery Co.; in Manhattan. Early one morning Mr. Smith left a party in Manhattan's Hotel Marguery with Oilman Samuel E. Bell of Baltimore and Mrs. Robert L. Brown, wife of a Kentucky bond salesman. What apparently happened: Mr. Smith wished to escort Mrs. Brown home. So did Oilman Bell. In a tussle Oilman Bell shoved Mr. Smith, who fell in the gutter. Next afternoon he died at his hotel, supposedly of diabetes. Autopsy revealed a fractured skull...