Word: escort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train ride. He saw a great part of the West's liquor supply tied up when the Whiskey Ring fraud exposures led to government seizure of his father's liquor stores. He went on the famed buffalo hunt of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, when the special escort, commanded by Generals Sheridan and Custer, included the West's most distinguished plainsmen. A master of understatement, Author Otero barely mentions the fact that after he received an appointment to Annapolis, at the age of 15, he escaped to St. Louis, made his father's agents there return...
Last week he rode through Dublin's hot streets behind an escort of Free State cavalry, brilliant in blue and saffron full-dress uniforms with orange plumes in their helmets. At the castle yard a battalion of infantry, in green, saluted him. Officers with drawn swords led him upstairs to St. Patrick's Hall where waited President de Valera. Minister Owsley made a little prepared speech. The Free State President launched into a speech entirely in Gaelic, not a word of which did Minister Owsley understand. "Cead mille failte," cried de Valera, meaning "a hundred thousand welcomes." When the strange...
...fair chance," breakfasted with Warden Lawes and a group of reporters. In Syracuse, where he joined the Albany Senators pending an executive committee hearing to decide whether he could play, a crowd of 300 met Baseballer Pitts at the station. He reached his hotel with a motorcycle police escort. Four days later the executive committee upheld Judge Bramham's ruling. Albany executives planned to refer the case to baseball's Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Said Alabama Pitts: "You know it's funny, all this fuss being made about me, when they don't really know whether...
...evening last week Professor Griffin wanted more robust diversion. Therefore he closed his books, called up a friend and went to a shabby Boston night club called "The Brown Derby." Warmed by a few drinks, he fell in with an attractive young blonde and her escort, shortly invited them home for "a little party." The little party became a big party before Professor Griffin got to bed. When he awoke he looked about a strangely disordered apartment. Gone was the attractive couple. Gone were his gold watch & chain, his shoes, $5 in cash and two precious volumes of Shakespeare...
With a bodyguard of two plainclothesmen and one state policeman. Italian Ambassador Auguste Rosso made a quiet half-hour visit yesterday to Harvard, accompanied by Ermanne Armao, Consul General of Boston and Judge Felix Forte. This escort was provided with an eye to yesterday's stabbing threat in Boston...