Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exception: James McNeill Whistler's famed Portrait of My Mother, valued at $1,000,000, France's one contribution to the Fair, lent by the Louvre through Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. When it arrives in Chicago next week, U. S. troops will escort it from Union Station to the Institute...
...Nights in a Barroom," is a typical temperence melodrama of the bygone days and involves much bloodshed and frequent Carrie Nation tactics in its denunciation of drink and the terrors that it brings to the home. All members of the University are invited, and any lady accompanied by an escort will be admitted...
...Yesterday the mail runner came up with a copy of TIME for me among other things. It came to Bel-Abbes, then to Fez and on to Ourd Zem (south of Casablanca) by train. From there to Beni Mallah by truck. A native escort brought it over the first of the hills on mules to district base. There a rider of the 'pony express' carried it to battalion base. A company convoy of mules and outriders carried it to company headquarters and it was forwarded here by the above mentioned manner. The poor thing must be quite shaken...
...electric engine got tangled up in the overhead wires, tore down 500 yards of them. Rushing to the rescue, an Italian steam locomotive tugged the MacDonald train to Genoa where Air Minister General Italo Balbo waited at the controls of a big trimotored Italian seaplane. Flanked by nine escort planes, they darted toward Ostia (the seaplane port of Rome). In top hat, morning coat and carrying a cane. Il Duce peered skyward as Scot MacDonald, hatless and tousle-haired, waved from the alighting seaplane...
Whizzing up Pennsylvania Avenue, the Hoover-Roosevelt car missed its cavalry escort, had to pause before the Post Office building to let the horsemen catch up. On the mile-&-a-quarter drive Mr. Roosevelt kept up a running fire of conversation with Mr. Hoover. The President, his face drawn and lowered, replied in monosyllables. Street crowds along the way pattered out mild applause which the incoming President left to the outgoing President to acknowledge as his final tribute...