Word: guardedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parlor radio a code-wise listener-in in Wisconsin heard screeching buzzes: "S. O. S.-S. 0. S.-Water up to- ' That was all. He telephoned the Coast Guard. But they heard no more signals. Next day the Milwaukee, one of the Grand Trunk R. R.'s big car ferries out of Milwaukee for Grand Haven had not reached her destination with a crew of 52. Two days later lake steamers sighted empty life boats, mattresses, the upper part of a ship's cabin. They picked up bodies strapped in lifebelts stenciled S. S. Milwaukee. Then they...
...miles through a bramble-clogged swamp to an Indian settlement. The Indians peeled off their ice-caked clothing, gave them food, but stolidly refused to try to reach their derelict companions. Not until four days later, when the seas had abated, were the marooned sailors rescued by a Coast Guard cutter...
...Unknown Soldier on the day the engagement was officially proclaimed last week. It was 9:30 in the morning, and the anniversary of the marriage of the present King and Queen of Italy in 1896. Gendarmes in khaki overcoats, their steel trench helmets painted white, formed a guard of honor. Cinema operators, sound and silent, stood by their tripods, then threw away their cigarets as a gleaming Minerva, private automobile of King Albert of Belgium, drew up at the curb...
...Death! Death!" screamed excited Belgians, ripe for a lynching. Soldiers with fixed bayonets hustled the would-be assassin away. Prince Umberto, without turning round continued the ceremony, laid a laurel wreath bound with the arms of Savoy on the Unknown Soldier's grave, then insisted on reviewing the guard of honor...
...first time in three games Captain Barrett was relieved of his duties as running guard and he subsequently played a much better game at defensive tackle. Kuehn justified his assignment at right tackle and Talbot again proved that he is still to be considered for a first team guard berth. His tackle of Bethea on the kickoff opening the second half was one of the cleanest and fiercest seen in the Stadium this year. The line as a whole clicked much better than it did against the Big Green, bad tackling being its only weakness...