Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked about repeal, the seductive star became wildly enthusiastic. "I think it's marvellous, wonderful, and what a time I had last night, even though they did throw my escort and me out of Cocoanut Grove. And I met one of your Harvard football players. Was he cute!--must have weighed 300 pounds, and real handsome. He said his name was Larry, and I sure would like to meet him again." Gypsy Lee said she liked her coffee black and her whiskey straight. Her favorite drink is a "Stinger." "It's the best drink in the world when...
...over the city about 9 a. m., but bad weather threatened. While most Chicagoans lay abed-before 7 a. m.-the ship slipped into Curtiss-Reynolds Airport where a ground crew of 250 soldiers hauled her to earth. She stayed long enough for a reception committee to escort Dr. Eckener ashore, cast off 25 minutes later, flew over the Fair on her way back to Akron...
...write, viz.: "Squadron A in their smart uniforms formed in the narrow street to escort the Vice-President-elect to the Capitol. We decided that their mounts had been hired in Washington for the occasion, probably taken from coal wagons, as they showed a tendency to back onto the sidewalk...
...they have engineered two typical lynchings in the last two months. The second and latest was a routine affair, but the first was, perhaps, a little more interesting. The negro defendants accused of crimes against whites were being taken by the police from Tuscaloosa to Decatur by a backroad, escorted by ten armed men in automobiles. When they reached the county line they were halted by a three-car party, armed, who removed the negroes from the escort and sent the sheriff and deputies back to town. The prisoners were stood up next to each other and shot. The firing...
...trucks bearing heavy burdens would be admitted, and at which the carriers of light parcels, laundrymen and such, would be denied the luxury of motor transportation. This would shunt all traffic to the dormitories, where it belongs and leave the pavement before Widener free for initiations and the police escort of the visiting ambassador from Liberia...