Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in history, was closed to public orators. Order there and elsewhere was maintained by the full Boston police force on 24-hour duty. Riot squads were equipped with automatic rifles, hand grenades, tear bombs. Exciting looking characters were immediately boxed in by police and marched off "to protect them from mob violence...
...half to three years. But, said the judge, the New York Legislature could not have foreseen, when it framed the state law on vandalism, such a spectacular achievement as Vandal Healy's with bone and bottles. The vandalism law, said the judge, should be stiffened to protect art owners. One George Tiernan, drinking companion of Vandal Healy during his onslaught in the Lihme apartment, was discharged by the court, having been cleared, by Vandal Healy's confession, of any active complicity...
...Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail and Red Cloud, may have made mistakes, but their hearts were brave and strong, their purposes were honest and noble. They have long gone to their Happy Hunting Ground, and we call upon you, as our new High Chief, to take up their leadership ... to protect and help the weak."- To cap the ceremony, Rosebud Robe (soon to appear in vaudeville as "the most beautiful Indian maiden in the world") placed upon White Chief & Protector Coolidge's brow a war bonnet of 200 feathers. Nineteen of the warriors who had helped kill General Custer...
...town hall park at Duisburg, Germany, was a statue- "Kneeling Woman"-one of the best works of Sculptor Lehmkuhl. Connoisseurs thought her inspiring, chaste, beautiful. Another group of townsfolk thought that she needed clothing, so they occasionally wrapped her in bedsheets at night. Police were assigned to protect her. Last week some vulgarians ousted the police, dragged "Kneeling Woman" from her pedestal, dismembered her, carried her away in pieces...
They drove their fists into each other savagely, scarcely bothering to protect themselves. Eighty thousand people, swarming around them in the night, bellowed with joy. They drove each other back and forth around their brightly lighted enclosure, grunting, snuffling for breath, dripping sweat and blood. Several million people, listening to an excited radio announcer at the ringside, rocked with excitement. It was, said the announcer, a furious fight, fast and even...