Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rear seat of a rapidly moving automobile . . . with two men in that automobile armed to the teeth, this car preceded in front by an automobile carrying two other armed officers of the law and followed by still another car with armed guards and with state highway patrolmen as an escort, did attempt to escape by using a pen-knife...
...Then the current report that you were kidnapped and sent to Port Arthur under Japanese escort in a destroyer is not true?' I asked...
...four marched into the kitchen, seized mops and began swinging them under other diners' feet. Hovering unhappily, the manager suggested that the two girls were getting their gowns dirty, that Childs was willing to forget the whole thing if they would leave. "No charity," asserted Medora. Finally her escort proposed a check in payment, which the manager hastily accepted...
...ready Governor James V. Allred was leaving the Pasadena, Calif., Rose Bowl (see p. 43) when he received a telegram from Secretary of the Texas Senate Robert ("Bob") Barker stating that Acting Governor Wilbourne Collie had called a special session of the legislature. Indignant, Governor Allred summoned a police escort to get through the football crowd, fumed when traffic blocked his car, clambered on the back of a motorcycle, fumed when traffic blocked the motorcycle, hopped off, hurried on foot to his hotel. While packing to board a plane, he learned that the Secretary of the Senate had been joking...
...entertainment committee has confirmed reports that Ann Marsters will attend the dance. She will not come as a guest of the committee, because of possible official disapproval, but a member of the House is expected to escort...