Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also in the Bishop's palace are the offices of the general staff. Few headquarters were ever more carefully guarded. Before it every morning is held a ceremonial guard mount. In turn, companies of Regulars, Moors, Carlists, Falangists. Revisionists take this guard, placing sentries at every corner of the building. No matter who has the office guard there are always on outside duty, in addition: two city police, with rifles; two tricorne-hatted civil guards, with rifles; two white robed Moors, with rifles; assorted plainclothesmen, with revolvers. Vigilance does not stop there. Inside the building, in the large bare...
...struck north into new and unsaved territory. At San Diego in 1769 he established Upper California's first mission which was, like all the others, a civil as well as a spiritual outpost. A mission consisted of a church, a residence of the fathers, a presidio or military guard, shops and workrooms in which to instruct Indians in the arts of civilization. Continuing northward. Fray Junipero by 1782 completed his rosary of missions and was given the power of confirmation which usually is possessed only by bishops. During three years, despite a crippled leg and an ailment...
Attached to the U. S. Army, with officers' rank, uniform and pay, are 125 chaplains. (The rest of some 1,600 full and part-time chaplains are with the CCC, National Guard, Reserve Corps.) There are no Jewish army chaplains because there are not enough Jews in the peacetime establishment; a church to be represented must claim at least 1% of the army on its rolls. Though most chaplains are Protestant, the single church supplying the most men is the Roman Catholic, with 31 chaplains. Last week for the first time in the 146 years of the chaplaincy...
...line Bob Green, Gibby Winter, and Red Daughters will divide the end posts between them. Alex Kevorkian, mentioned on several all-American teams, will hold down one tackle position. The other may be taken over by Joe Nee who played guard last year most of the time, or possibly by Wilson. That leaves Booth as a substitute tackle. Captain Russ Allen will have things his own way as one guard leaving the other for either Nee or Boston...
...well, too, that we bear in mind that in all the pioneer settlements democracy and not feudalism was the rule. The men had to take their turn standing guard at the stockade. . . . The women had to take their turn husking corn...