Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with their demands for better food, better sanitation and more comforts, cause too much trouble and discontent among the people. I didn't have to wait in line at the Soviet stores as the Russians did, but they used to hiss me. I had to have a police escort to get through. Since we left, I've heard they've had to change the rules and make American women stand in line, too, because Russians resented...
...training at various convents, she went on the stage in Manhattan. Her reputation was just beginning to dawn when she left for England. She liked England and there was less competition there. Before long she was, to Londoners, the greatest U. S. actress. Bobbies had to give her an escort nightly from the stage door to her car. Because she was an American managers picked her out to play parts that had been hits on Broadway, The Green Hat, Let Us Be Gay, Her Cardboard Lover, They Knew What They Wanted. Before every premiere she buys herself an expensive present...
...mysterious telephone call directing him to drive to a deserted spot on the outskirts of the city. He was met by an armed stranger who gave him more intricate, more mysterious instructions. Presently they encountered two other cars and exchanged elaborate signals of flashing headlights. Then the reporter's escort abruptly left him with the words...
...Royal Party will arrive at the north entrance to Fort Myer military reservation. A troop of cavalry will be waiting for the Royal Party to act as an escort on the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery...
...President's flag (U. S. eagle-&-shield with four white stars on a blue field) from her main truck, the 31,000-ton dreadnaught nosed out into the Atlantic for her first "shakedown" run after two years in drydock being reconditioned. The cocky little destroyer Taylor served as escort. President Hoover had smooth sailing southeastward for four days. He took long naps morning and afternoon, lounged before a wood fire. On deck he played medicine ball, losing one ball overboard. After dinner (for which he dressed) an orchestra played softly, he attended talking cinema shows (Rain or Shine, The Temple...