Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen. George VI last week used a 300-h.p. green motor launch (later to serve as Admiral's barge for Admiral Sir Edward Evans, commander-in-chief at The Nore), his escort consisting of four of Britain's new secret torpedo motor boats. Such a vast wash did they create that dozens of spectators near Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment were swept from their feet, nearly drowned...
...them will get on the day of the ceremony. At 6:16 a.m. the procession moved off en route for Westminster Abbey. As the four-ton gilded coach, similar to that in which King George & Queen Elizabeth will ride, rolled along behind eight horses with its Household Cavalry escort, policemen and soldiers snapped their heels to attention. Outside the Abbey, the procession halted while an imaginary Coronation service unwound itself, and officials with furrowed brows peered at stopwatches. On the cavalcade's return journey any wisps of sleep that still hovered over the 200,000 sightseers were swept away...
...White House for tea, said goodby, took his lady to dinner at the Canadian Legation as guest of Sir Herbert Marler, then tumbled into a Pullman bed to sleep the hard-earned sleep of the distinguished all the way back to the Canadian border under State Department escort...
Stepping out into the arms of a police squadron, Financier Groves, whose rocketing $15,000,000 Phoenix Securities investment trust has been under the eyes of the Securities & Exchange Commission, showed no surprise, explained nothing, allowed police cars to escort him and two girl friends in a taxi to the Holland Tunnel. He then disappeared. The mystery at once thickened and clarified when newshawks found beauteous Mrs. Groves, onetime Cinemactress Monaei Lindley, in tears at the Groves's triplex apartment on Park Avenue. Preceding her husband to New York by one day, she said, she had found their home...
When he saw it was me he stepped back." The girl, shown by the autopsy to have been drinking heavily, left her escort at her door, entered her apartment, took off her coat and dress in the bathroom, washed out her silk stockings and hung them over the edge of the tub to dry, cold-creamed her face and put her hair up in curlers...