Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under house arrest at his estate in Snagov, Prince Nicholas of Rumania, stripped by his brother King Carol of all royal and military rights (TIME, April 19), assumed the name of Mr. Bran (from one of his mother's castles in Transylvania), wrote a letter shushing the Iron Guard's Nicholas-for-King agitation which had alarmed Carol...
Helped by a crook named Petty Louie (Hobart Cavanaugh), he enters a jewelry store, heaps all the clocks in one corner, then lets the burglar alarm function. When the Ranger guards arrive, the clocks are all crying "Cuckoo!" Next Mallory opens all the umbrellas in an umbrella shop, does similar whimsies in a dozen other Ranger-guarded stores. Nowhere does he steal anything, but always leaves a note signed "Night Key," reading: "What I create I can destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help...
...prior, 1,000 miles at sea, where the slow Atlantic groundswell sweeps across the edge of the Grand Banks, the Coast Guard cutter Mendota slid to a stop, engines dead, church pennant at masthead, to pay the annual homage of the Ice Patrol to the 1,513 dead who caused its creation. Rolling in the trough of the sea with a bleak grey sky above and the broken hull of the Titanic below, the Mendota lay at rest with her 90 officers & men lining her quarter-deck in full dress while Commander Henry W. Coyle Jr. read the burial service...
...disgust of discriminating undergraduates out on a holiday an array of pitiably unorganized politicians and women's leagues marked time with hoboes and urchins. Boy Scouts marched better than the National Guard; sound effects went on the bum, and, to cap it all, a local merchant shocked Legionnaires by flying his flag upside down...
Against a background of New London barrooms and immaculately white icebergs this picture dedicated to the bravery and determination of the Coast Guard tells a story of frustrated love at last triumphant. It almost never fails to be quiet entertainment...