Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lone casualty as a result of the day's rough-and-tumble workout was Junior guard Don Lowry. Lowry was bumped up considerably, but the exact extent of his injury will not be known until today. George Heiden, Burgy Ayres, and Club Peabody did not participate in the heavy work yesterday...
...favorite phrase among Italian Fascisti is "changing of the guard." It refers to a supposedly fixed policy of rotating the Party's big men in the State's big jobs; actually it is usually used to make crucial political shifts seem casual and routine. Last week, when Italy's hierarchy was violently shaken up, the phrase was shouted loud on Rome's seven hills. But no amount of inspired pooh-poohing could make the changes unimportant...
Some years before World War I, the Kaiser took Queen Wilhelmina-a plump, sweet-faced young matron-out to his Army maneuvers. Intending to impress his little neighbor with Germany's military might, he pointed out to her a strapping unit of the Prussian Guard...
...Meantime another freighter, the British Coulmore, became another ship-of-the-week. During heavy weather at night, 500 miles east of Nantucket, she radioed she had been attacked by a submarine, wanted rescuing. To the spot rushed U. S. Coast Guard cutters and destroyers and the U. S. press got excited because Coulmore's message placed her near the zone where the Panama Conference and President Roosevelt had forbidden belligerents to operate...
...sleuthing that follows takes a different and amusing turn. A Jewish cop (Sam Levene), who has been appointed by a prankish mayor to guard the consul, sees that he is in a tight place. Unless the murderer is caught at once, all the Jews in the Reich will suffer because Officer Finkelstein failed to prevent the murder. Half by bludgeoning, half by clowning, Officer Finkelstein gets the mystery solved...