Word: guard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover last week drove her Packard to Richmond, Va., and back (225 mi.) to inspect an exhibit of portraits of early Virginians. Her guests were three - Mrs. Vernon L. Kellogg, Mrs. H. S. Cummings and Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone. A chauffeur rode idly in her car, a body guard trailed in another...
...guard went away, returned, said: "I'm sorry but the President...
...discovery was not made by the ornate Corporal of the Guard, theoretically responsible for all sentries, but by a passing policeman, amazed to find one of the palace sentry boxes empty. The police-man reported this unusual fact to the Officer of the Guard...
Finally last week the exhausted politicians arranged for parliament to elect as chancellor no one of their number, but a potent businessman, Dr. Ernst Streeruwitz, who in his youth was a smart cavalry officer of the Habsburg Imperial Guard. Such a choice will not long be stomached by the second largest Austrian party, the radical, devoutly Marxian "Social Democrats...
There are two ways of approaching a weight which you are about to lift. Willie Rohrer likes to stalk about it, eye it suspiciously. He creeps toward it, grasps it. Softly he snorts. He waits, sometimes five minutes, as though to catch gravity off its guard. Suddenly he yanks at and lifts it (a steel bar weighted at each end by iron discs) high above his head. Last week, he lifted successfully every weight he tried...