Word: guard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the most promising candidates are Worth, who was chosen All-New Jersey forward last year; Wenner, also a forward; Winslow of Rovets, and, Waterman of Brooklyn Poly, Prep., both centers, F. Lewis, G. Lewis, and LaRue are showing the greatest promise of all the candidates for the guard positions...
...Chase '28, C. S. Gross '27, and Nathaniel Hamlen '27, all members of last years championship outfit, compose the Crimson team A forward line, with Captain W. P. Ellison, '27, and Willard Howard '27, playing in the defense positions. The starting goal guard has not been picked yet, the decision lying between W. W. Adams '28 and Joseph Morrill '28. Both of these men did relief work for Captain Thayer Cummings '26, last year showing marked ability as cage protectors. It is possible that Morrill will get the initial call, with Adams ready to relieve him at any time...
...first clash between the Government attorneys and the defense came when Mr. Roberts asked that the twelve jurors be kept under guard during the entire time of the trial. Said he: "We make this motion because of the tremendous importance of the case . . . and because it is first a charge of improper use of money, which amounts to bribery . . . and that no carping criticism and no breath of suspicion can be said, rightly or wrongly, to have interfered with the proper functioning of the machinery of justice in this case...
...begun. Nevertheless, presiding Judge Adolph A. Hoehling granted Mr. Roberts' motion after 20 minutes' cogitation, thereby giving the prosecution its first victory. So the jury was "locked up" in a stuffy courthouse dormitory which had only one washstand. On Thanksgiving Day they marched, two by two, under guard, to a turkey dinner...
Curious tots vexed their parents by piping: "How can you tell one kind of a Guard from another?" Super-papas and super-mamas might have replied: "Although they all wear scarlet tunics with blue collars, cuffs and shoulder straps, blue trousers and towering, rounded bearskin hats, you should note that the Grenadier Guards wear a small white plume in the bearskin, the Coldstream Guards a red plume, the Scots no plume and the Irish a blue-green, (not "emerald") plume. To further distinguish the Guards, the buttons on their coats are spaced in a different manner for each regiment...