Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driving over a white line, passing another auto on a curve. Instead of giving her a ticket, Patrolman Ormond exacted from Soprano Mario a promise. Three days later Patrolman Ormond called for Soprano Mario & accompanist in a limousine borrowed from an undertaker, drove her to Armonk under strong police escort, rapturously listened to Soprano Mario work off her fine in Strauss songs at a Policemen's Benefit...
...inventing the character of a handsome young page who acts as Marie's loyal escort, the author furnishes an eye-witness to scenes left out of histories. The page overhears the conversation in which Talleyrand double-crosses Napoleon with the emissaries of Russia and Austria. He and Marie uncover the plot to put Murat on the French throne; as courier to Napoleon in Spain, he sits in on long conversations between Napoleon and his intimates (partly taken from the Emperor's speeches in the Russian campaign, three years after the story's close...
...invited a group of West Point-trained Filipino officers to dine. When their U. S. training caused them to forget their native manners so far as to fail to light President Quezon's after-dinner smoke, he decided to go to the U. S. without military escort. By last week, all Manila knew that President Quezon was really prepared to consider Commissioner McNutt as Boss. On the occasion of his homecoming call, he graciously lighted the McNutt cigaret...
...ecstatically, "I am purified." His beautiful Spanish wife had abandoned him when he collapsed with fever. Heading for Shanghai in the company of a Chinese fur merchant, she exhausted her last will power in fleeing from her host's insidious attentions, was easily hypnotized by her next Chinese escort, who sold her into prostitution: a fate which left her spiritually clear-eyed, "inexplicably passive and serene," for the first time in her life...
...evasion in 1931. Mrs. Capone said she was not responsible for her husband's taxes. When his ig-year-old step-daughter Dorothy returned to his Salt Lake City house at midnight, 80-year-old Hiram Dempsey and an unidentified companion appeared in the darkness, ordered her escort off the premises. When Dorothy Dempsey began to cry, 41-year-old Mrs. Dempsey and her parents, Mr. & Mrs. John T. Lythgoe, who live next door, ran out to see what was wrong. In the argument that followed, someone felled Mr. Lythgoe with a black jack, Hiram Dempsey got a black...