Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen before, it was at least official and marked the removal of the protective scaffolding. But by the time she is 18, the modern New York debutante is already a familiar denizen of the Stork Club and the" tabloids, and is capable of deciding at a glance whether her escort is sober enough to drive...
Princess at the Window. For the first time since 1938, Parliament was opened with full-dress ceremonial. Red robes trimmed with white fur, cutaways, top hats and striped trousers were taken out of mothballs or rented at high prices. The Household Cavalry who would escort the royal coach got ready to don their plumed helmets and breastplates, white breeches, high black boots, red and blue tunics. The Imperial State Crown was taken from...
...Jose Bustamante parried by suggesting that the whole matter be left to the Supreme Court for decision. The soldiers brushed the idea aside. Bustamante knew then that he was finished, but he sat on stubbornly in his grandiose palace on the Plaza de Armas until four officers came to escort him to the Limatambo airfield and Argentine exile...
...Miss Helen Dozier Conant, 18, was crowned Queen of Love and Beauty at St. Louis' annual Veiled Prophet Ball. Spectators watched her walk to the throne talking earnestly to her escort, later discovered that she had been reciting the Declaration of Independence to steady her nerves...
Soon afterwards he declared that he would no longer live among these "heathen," and went to Palestine. Ana Pauker provided him with an escort to the border...