Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steps. The sergeant gave chase, begged him to "act like a gentleman." "Take off your glasses and draw your gun," cried Marion Zioncheck. In the ensuing scuffle the sergeant suffered a sprained finger, facial bruises. Capitol police joined the fray, helped hustle Representative Zioncheck into the guard room. Swearing he would sue the police department for false arrest, he finally agreed to go to court. With the courtroom jammed, Representative Zioncheck, acting as his own attorney, pleaded guilty to the speeding charge but insisted that he had not been properly notified when or where to appear for trial. Judge Casey...
Early one sunny afternoon last week the Coast Guard cutter Potomac finally brought a bronzed and beaming President back to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from a 16-day fishing holiday. For three days while tornadoes had been uprooting towns through the South, killing over 400 citizens, the Potomac, warned of possible hurricanes at sea, had been dodging from cay to cay rather than risk crossing the open channel between Florida and the Bahamas. Gaily Franklin Roosevelt told waiting newshawks how only an hour before while the Potomac was steaming at ten knots, he had caught a bonito, trolling over the stern...
...Rome Benito Mussolini felt that the time was ripe to do a little crowing. The Ethiopian War was going the way it should have gone six months ago. The Imperial Guard of Haile Selassie was smashed. The Negus himself was supposed to be hiding, beardless in the bushes. With a little luck Italian troops should reach Dessye by Easter. Then II Duce could demand peace on his own terms. To the Fascist Grand Council last week he roared...
...Tokyo four wild-eyed young men, members of one of Japan's patriotic societies (Kenkokukai) invaded the offices of the Soviet Tass News Agency, attempted to bluff Red reporters into leaving the country. Around the Soviet embassy Japanese police set a close guard, arrested Japanese interpreters, Japanese language teachers and other Japanese employes on suspicion of espionage, opened parcels. Announced Moscow's Izvestia: "The Japanese attitude toward the embassy of a foreign state is unprecedented in civilized countries...
...sports columnist of the Paris Herald, in whose writings it is a 5-to-1 bet that Promoter Dickson's name will appear on any given day. Dickson's secretary is Count Nicolas Ignatieff, son of Prince Nicolas Ignatieff, who once commanded the Tsar's Imperial Guard. When they discovered each other, the Count was a taxi driver and Promoter Dickson was his first fare. Apologizing for his incompetence as a chauffeur, the Count admitted he could speak twelve languages and take shorthand dictation. Dickson ordered him to drive home, telephone the company to call...