Word: escort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week when I arrived there on what I called entirely a personal pleasure trip. Commentators recalled that in 1902 I toured the U. S., amid enormous crowds, from whose frenzy of cordiality I was ably protected by Rear Admiral Robley D. ("Fighting Bob") Evans, my personal friend and official escort...
...French police had barely thwarted an attempt upon his life. While his Queen, Victoria Engénie, shopped in the Rue de la Paix, the King's motor attained a speed so terrific on the broad Champs Elysées that he distanced not only his official escort but also several motorcycle policement, who, not knowing his identity, gave chase with intent to accomplish his arrest...
...soldiers, commanded by Azmi Pasha, were starting for Cairo as an escort of the Holy Carpet, the immemorial piece of rug that covers the Kaaba in the Mosque at Mecca. Because of friction between Sultan Ibn Soud and King Fuad of Egypt, the Holy Carpet had not gone to Cairo for two years, but this year things looked better; the King of Egypt had a chance of being made Calif of Islam; the rug started on its journey, accompanied by the soldiers and followed by a brass band which blared out, with wandering horns and cymbals, an Egyptian marching song...
...Princeton, N. J., a score of ribald Juniors cheered the arrival of a Prom girl whose escort had chartered a buggy in her honor? imported it from still more rural districts at allegedly fabulous expense. "'THANKS for the Buggy Ride'! The Buggy, Buggy, Buggy Ride!" they caroled. "Lost all my pride! . . . Buggy-ridin'-lovin'! . . . I had a wonderful time...
...Each girl and her escort will be assigned...