Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have known no Harvard men. What kind of men do I like? Well," she grinned and glanced at her escort. "Aw, Cheez, give me a break," quoth he. She spoke, slowly, majestically, and devastatingly, "Tall, dark, and handsome." He quailed; sentence had fallen...
...very clean collar, put a silk hat on his head, took up his papers and went forth to present his credentials from President Roosevelt to George V. The two men never met. Governor General Buckley continued to read the papers while Minister McDowell rode behind a clattering cavalry escort to present himself to scrawny President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State...
...hours later the wreck of the Fulton, still flaming, was being towed to Hongkong by two Admiralty tugs under escort of another British warship, and Bias Bay was clear of all ships except the Norwegian freighter Norviken steaming slowly southward from Foochow. Suddenly 22 Chinese passengers aboard the Norviken whipped out revolvers, rushed the bridge, overpowered the officers, rushed the engine room, smashed the wireless. At their leisure the pirates stripped seven European passengers of their valuables, lowered boats and. unmolested, made for the shore carrying ten nonpiratical Chinese to be held for ransom...
...France insists on counting both Storm Troopers and Leaders' Escort Troops as part of the regular German army...
From various remarks dropped by the actors, and also by the escort of the deaf lady in the next box, we gathered that the theme of the play was nothing less than the attempt of a god on shore-leave to rob a young dance-hall hostess of her maidenhead. Two other tars, gross fellows all, lay bets upon his enterprise. This plot is a simple one, and it is thematically unvaried throughout. If you are looking for an evening of good 100 per cent American smut, this is it. There's no nastiness in it; the only cloud...