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Word: guard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally the Italian people have reason for fearing any and all attacks upon the Roman nose. If to be a Fascist one must be a true Roman, that Bergeracian appendage is essential. Premier and policeman, both must guard the nasal bridge, valiant as Horatius, and twice as undemocratic. For democracy, if it does not predicate complete denasalization, at least suggests a diminution of nasal swank. The affair, indeed, is after all, quite conversational...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROMAN NOSE | 4/29/1926 | See Source »

...changes are expected in the 1929 line-up. Miyokawa will again patrol the short field and head the batting order; Crotty, Durkee and Tudor will be in charge of the outer pastures; Todd, Elkirs and Donaghy will stand guard over the three infield way stations; and Captain Prior will don the mask...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUSHING GAME ACID TEST FOR CRIMSON FRESHMEN | 4/28/1926 | See Source »

...mind, at least, the best bit of acting is done by the unsung supers, the Tsarist officers, in a scene at an Inn. The princess, mistaken for a peasant girl has been given over, unknowingly, by her fiance, the prince, to the officers of his guard. DeMille has the officers seated around a table, snatching here and there at the girl's clothes, until, so well do the faces of the extras register, that one is led to believe, without seeing the princess, that she has very few clothes covering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/27/1926 | See Source »

Before General Lincoln C. Andrews was called before the Committee (TIME, April 19) he was warned to guard his statements, for anti-saloon officials were waiting for his official scalp. Why, no one knew. He is certainly no friend of the Wets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Andrews Assailed | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...Among the first to read Mme. Calvé's protest was William J. Guard, kindly press agent of the Metropolitan, who watches over his flock like a mother hen. He fumed, he fussed, he ruffled his feathers, flapped his great wings, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censure | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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