Word: guards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guard room of the castle on the hooks where morions, pikes and breastplates had hung of old, the Linz police found 500 modern steel helmets, 500 knapsacks and leather cartridge boxes, but no actual guns, no ammunition...
Their hooting and vandalism were only halted at dusk by intense thirst. Back in their cells, they yammered through the night. None escaped, no guard was hurt...
...Smarting under the lambasting given his pet legislation. Chairman Reed Smoot came to the Tariff Bill's defense: "I want to put the American people on guard against a deliberate campaign of misrepresentation. . . . Criticism is inspired by propagandists of selfish groups. . . . We are joined in the intention to write the best tariff bill ever enacted...
...told of 40 Red Comrades chained and beaten by Chinese and White Russians at Pogranichnaya, Manchuria. Fired by these tales, thousands of proletarians mass-met at Leningrad and voted a manifesto: "The Leningrad workers insist that the Soviet Government take decisive steps against the haughty Chinese and the White Guard bands. . . . The workers declare that the Russian peace policy does not mean Russia is re-signed to submitting to outrages...
...Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle was engaged in an exhibition bayonet contest at a Pitman, N. J., military camp of which he is head. His opponent, acting within the rules of combat, dropped his rifle, seized a dagger, lunged inside the Major's guard, inflicted a flesh wound. Major Biddle continued fighting until his wife intervened...