Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deliver his last, compellingly honest words on the case that came near to toppling his government last summer. Though gaunt and ashen-faced from his recent illness, 69-year-old Harold Macmillan threw back his shoulders with the kind of dignity under attack that comes instinctively to the Old Guardsman. "Of course," he said, "I was deceived. That must always be for me and for the whole House a great sorrow." Soon afterward, Harold Macmillan, who held office for almost seven straight years-a record unmatched by any other peacetime Prime Minister in nearly half a century-rose and, bowing...
...National Guardsman...
With their hero gone, the crowd hurled rocks at the National Guardsmen assigned to keep order. One Guardsman fired his pistol into the air. The mob charged, and the Guardsmen triggered a warning burst from their tommy-guns. The mob set fire to a bus and charged again. The Guardsmen aimed lower. Three rioters were killed, nine wounded...
...Ritz. Between the wars, the Cavendish became the favorite haunt of London's gilded youth. Rosa smiled benignly on their amours, and could always provide a trusted young guardsman or undergraduate with a compliant partner. "All luxuries are overused," she said, "but sexual immorality is sometimes the least dangerous." She was also famed as hotel-dom's Robin Hood, from her habit of loading penurious guests' bills onto the richest resident, who for years was a meek, abstemious millionaire she called Froggy...
...Homburg set squarely on his head, his natty guardsman's mustache stretched over a smile, a fresh carnation peeping from his lapel, Whalen flashed into the jazz age like a Victorian anachronism. He was the man in the lead car of every great tumultuous Broadway parade, the companion of the hero of the hour, always the host, never the honored guest, forever the other fellow in the news photos. Impeccable in dress, urbane in character, it was he to whom the city turned when it wanted to put on the dog for a visiting celebrity...