Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Household Cavalry's chagrin, acute though it was, could not compare to that of officers of the Foot Guards last week when they learned that a scarlet-coated, fur-busbied Scots Guardsman had vanished completely from his post at Buckingham Palace...
Officers of the Household Cavalry flushed behind their monocles a fortnight ago, when it was learned that a horse bearing one of the immobile mounted sentries of Whitehall had fallen asleep at its post and collapsed under its rigid, ornately accoutred rider (TIME...
...military correspondents" of London papers wrote that this was the first time in British history that a sentry had disappeared from a British Royal sentry post. They took comfort in the fact that the King was not in residence at Buckingham Palace when the vanishment occurred. "The matter is being treated," said the pontifical Times, "with some levity in the barracks of the Welsh and Coldstream Guards...
...actually killed, but the local Polish consul was summoned post-haste to Warsaw, and Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski announced that he was drafting a stiff protest to the League...
...crisis now ended was precipitated by the resignation as chancellor of tall, bald, beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel (TIME, April 15), whom the Pope is expected shortly to elevate to the post of cardinal, a holy office considered incompatible with the mundane status of a prime minister...