Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle for the guard and backfield positions is especially spirited. Cliff Wilson, a burly convert from last year's A team blocking back appears assured of one of the guard posts. In signal drill Russ Allen has been holding down the other, while in the scrimmages, from which Allen will be withheld until about Monday, Bob Downes succeeds Allen. Close behind him is Jee Nee and pressing him is Chuck Klein...
...police, sent by Rhode Island's Democratic Governor Robert E. Quinn to arrest Walter O'Hara on charges of criminal libel and blasphemy For two hours the rival police squadrons glared at each other in stubborn deadlock. Then Mr. O'Hara calmly walked out, dismissed his guard, received the warrant, and walked into another court episode in what by last week had become the bitterest sporting and political war in hard-boiled "Little Rhody's" history...
This year lifeboat racing, with the Hague Trophy about to be retired, got a new silver cup from another enthusiast, Joseph W. Powell of United Shipyards. Inc. Run off just before the Hague event, not in lifeboats but in uniform Monomoy surf boats borrowed from the U. S. Coast Guard, the first Powell Cup race attracted a field of seven crews, fastest of which proved to be that of the United Fruit Co.'s freighter San José, which stroked the course...
...your issue of Aug. 9, p. 19, you described Eric Titterington Bey as a taster of food for the King of Egypt, to guard him against poisoning. In the royal palaces at Cairo and Alexandria and on the royal yacht, used by the late King for his frequent trips to Europe, are well appointed laboratories in which Mr. Titterington and his staff analyze much of the food used on the royal table. On a visit to the laboratory in the Abdin Palace, Cairo, I found Mr. Titterington was analyzing a keg of butter, part of a large shipment recently shipped...
When Publisher Quigley dropped his guard and went into a crouch: ("Well, what do you want us to do?") Professor Eastman straightened him up with a jarring left: ("The motion pictures should tell their stories on the screen truthfully according to human values. They should not lie about them.") At the sight of Socialist Norman Thomas climbing into the ring to join Professor Eastman's attack, Publisher Quigley retired to a neutral corner. Paramount News Assignment Editor William P. Montague took his place, gave ground a little when he admitted that newsreels perhaps tended to be superficial (see below...