Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King will ride in procession from Buckingham Palace, accompanied by an escort and will enter the arena of the parade at the southeast corner...
...carefully arranged approaches and cunning underpasses on Randalls Island, all crossovers were completely eliminated from the Triborough, with the result that not a single traffic light is needed. Simple though the system looked on paper, it proved complicated enough the first day to send President Roosevelt's police escort awry...
...Medal of Honor. The board disallowed all 864 medals promised those of the 27th Maine Volunteer Infantry who would re-enlist in 1863, but given even to those who went home. Also canceled were the 29 Medals bestowed in a moment of patriotic inadvertence on Lincoln's funeral escort. The board also rescinded Dr. Walker's award. No civilian has ever received the Medal legally. Charles Augustus Lindbergh rated one because he had belonged to the reserve air force long before his Paris flight.-ED. Sirs...
Although Mayor LaGuardia had not granted it a police escort, the coach ignored traffic lights. At Fifth Avenue & 30th Street, site of the old Holland House whence Tobacconist Sorg started his run, Mrs. Dibble set a smart pace. The Valiant clattered through Manhattan traffic to South Ferry in 29 minutes, sailed across to Staten Island, changed horses, took the Tottenville Ferry to Perth Amboy...
...weeks, the able publicity staff of the Texas Centennial Exposition not only sent the 21-year-old Texas Quadruplets, Mary, Mona, Leota & Roberta Keys, to visit the Dionne Quintuplets, but persuaded frosty-haired, stately old Pat Morris Neff, onetime (1921-25) Governor of Texas, to escort them. Pat Neff is president of Baptist Baylor University, where the four Keys Quadruplets are juniors. At Callander, Ont. the Keys' chorused, after seeing the Dionnes: "We are really terribly thrilled...