Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shook hands with most of 500 people who had gathered outside, singling out for special greeting a small boy in a cowboy suit. At a tourist camp on Des Moines' outskirts the caravan picked up six more carloads of newshawks and greeters, plus a motor-cycle police escort. Even though he kept in the back seat of his closed car, citizens along Des Moines streets knew that Alf Landon had arrived. The Republican nominee answered their cheers with smiles and waves of his sailor straw...
...were outrageously irregular. The Hearst pressmen were remaining away from work in violation of their "contractual obligations" and without consent of their international officers. The picketing was being largely conducted by unions, which had no legitimate interest in the dispute. Moreover, Seattle's Mayor sent no police to escort the News's 650 technically nonstriking employes to their work...
...John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada and the person of His Majesty the King in the Dominion, met the Presidential special, accompanied by Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lieut. Governor Esioff Léon Patenaude of Quebec and U. S. Minister Norman Armour. With an escort of Royal Canadian Dragoons trotting beside him, President Roosevelt was driven up through the narrow streets of French Quebec to the heights of Dufferin Terrace...
Prince (to Mrs. Jarrett's escort): Die junge Frau ist zu komisch...
...only a civilian aviator, the German Chancellor and the Prussian Premier did not go to Berlin to greet him, remained on rustic vacation in south Germany. They did announce that "in principle" they would receive the Colonel whenever he is in their vicinity, did send their personal aides to escort him, click heels and kiss Mrs. Lindbergh's hand...