Word: escort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Graves (whom Sassoon calls David Cromlech) got Sassoon to give in by telling him he would never be court-martialled but would be shut up in a lunatic asylum for the duration. It was announced Sassoon had shell shock; he was ordered to a hospital. Graves, his appointed escort, missed the train...
...cost the escort of one of Boston's winter buds one half dollar to learn that entrance to University Hall should not be made through a window. The woman in the, case desired a copy of the dean's list of students for use as a social register at her coming presentation. But the key which had been given to her for lawful trespass failed to unlock the ancient portal...
...escort volunteered to storm the window. He was neither here nor there when a Yard watchman apprehended the visible portion of his body. University officials seemed to be satisfied with...
...because of your resignation and the state of your health you are no longer a prisoner. You may remain here or go where you please, with a military escort if you desire it." The sick man stayed in bed, improved somewhat...
...Sylt was the flying boat's spectacular arrival (from Halifax, N. S.) at New York. In mid-afternoon the great tandem-motored Dornier-Wal flew out of the northeast and over Manhattan's crowded Battery, twice circled the Statue of Liberty. Capt. von Gronau picked out one of the escort of police planes, followed it down to a landing in the midst of harbor traffic, deftly hurdled a menacing piece of driftwood, brought up within a stone's throw of the Battery seawall. The four men, in their five-year-old plane (which had already served the late Roald Amundsen...