Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final day President Sean O'Kelly and his wife Phyllis drove into the grounds in an open landau, surrounded by an elegant escort of blue-&-gold uniformed hussars. Two of the horses pulling the landau, unnerved by the excitement of the occasion, reared, almost overturned the landau, broke loose and dashed off. The hussars scattered. Dubliners considered this incident alone made the show a success. When Eire's No. 1 Army band (conducted by a German) played God Save the King!, Eamon de Valera smiled sourly as he stood at attention in what used to be the royal...
...dirty work in nine, including one soap opera. All this crime pays Bell about $30,000 a year, but he sweats like a stool pigeon for it-twelve hours a day, six days a week.* Even off the air, Bell sounds and looks like a hood just back from escort duty on a one-way ride. With his sneering voice goes a curling lip (with black, headwaiter mustache to match) and a martini-cold eye. But the yegg is just a softie under his shell...
...release, he was forcibly inducted into the Army, forcibly dressed in uniform; a tall Welsh Guardsman, who was to escort him back to Wales, ordered him to shoulder his pack. Homer refused. The deadlock continued till a crowd gathered. Finally a grey-haired little man stepped forward, quietly picked up the pack and murmured: "Come along, Arthur." It was Arthur Horner's father. Arthur's finish to the story: "Of course, as we got round the corner, I took the pack from the old man-but I was damned if I was going to cave in under...
Wine may still stop its flow at Wellesley's verdant borders, but not so women or even song of the hotel orchestra variety. The 500 wooded acres on Lake Waban are currently the home of the only college-sponsored theatre in America, marking opening night tonight replete with aircraft escort...
...must go to an office under the bookstacks," he said. "There they are qualified to issue a temporary pass. You would never find it. It is far too complicated. I will summon an escort...