Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North Carolina made up for it. At the Progressive Party's state convention in Durham, 25 noisy pickets set off a wild scuffle. Eggs were thrown, firecrackers and stink bombs exploded, a National Guardsman fired into the air. Wallace insisted on a police escort, entered the hall behind a Guardsman with drawn pistol. He spoke against a drumfire of heckling from spectators and counter chants of "We Want Wallace" from his supporters. "What do we want for the South?" he cried. "Thurmond," bellowed his hecklers. For those who could hear, Wallace suggested that the Federal Government allot $1 billion...
...give up horsemanship; he entered the Grenadier Guards. Great Morning is dedicated to one of Sir Osbert's friends and contemporaries in the Guards, then "a charming and elegant young man," now Field Marshal Viscount Alexander of Tunis (and Canada's Governor General). Most of his other Guardsman friends were dead before 1916. Happily stationed in London, resplendently uniformed and detailed to duty at the romantic Tower or at Buckingham Palace, young Sitwell in his free evenings discovered the world of fashion. Heady excitements were to be found there: the great hostesses such as Mrs. Asquith, Mrs. Keppel...
...school at Rugby, later became a Communist, was beaten up by Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts at a fascist meeting. He got into Oxford with difficulty and became the first Communist president of the Union (Oxonian debating society). He later rejected Communism, joined the army as a Welsh Guardsman in 1940, was "commissioned as an intelligence officer and wound up in the Ministry of Economic Warfare...
...release, he was forcibly inducted into the Army, forcibly dressed in uniform; a tall Welsh Guardsman, who was to escort him back to Wales, ordered him to shoulder his pack. Homer refused. The deadlock continued till a crowd gathered. Finally a grey-haired little man stepped forward, quietly picked up the pack and murmured: "Come along, Arthur." It was Arthur Horner's father. Arthur's finish to the story: "Of course, as we got round the corner, I took the pack from the old man-but I was damned if I was going to cave in under...
...Seattle, 15 persons in one day called the papers to report having seen "flying saucers." Two Portland deputy sheriffs spotted "20 in a line going like hell to the west." A Spokane woman saw five fluttering "washtubs," each "about the size of a five-room house." A Seattle coast guardsman took a picture of a "saucer" at dusk. The picture showed a pinpoint of light. A policeman saw a lone saucer skimming high over San Francisco Bay. From people in Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and 29 other states and Canada, reports...