Word: shielded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patrolmen Sheehan and Gillee took note. "An anarchist, maybe!" said Patrolman Gillee. On seeing a great lout, lumbering along the nearly deserted street, firing off a gun in crazy fashion they were convinced. Overtaking Patrolman Burns, they whacked his head with clubs, searched him for explosives, found his police shield...
...Ignacio, Calif., no honest dog stood by to shield Irene Malla, 18, when she went into the fields to milk her cows. Proceeding, she disturbed the ruminations of a bull, could not elude him. The beast caught her on his horns, gashed her thigh, threw her over a fence...
...apprenticeship as waterboy and brakeman he bears no mark. In the days of pin coupling, brakemen were seldom "set up" as conductors before they had managed to lose a finger or two. Conductor Kennedy's hands and memories are as smooth as a college professor's. The shield-shape perforation which he carefully makes in your ticket, in your presence', is done with the punch he used on his first passenger trip...
...tablets will be of bronze, 20 by 30 inches, with a laurel leaf border the Harvard shield...
...They will take my only son." A smile compassionate yet proud twitched the lips of Frau Rothschild: "Ach! Do not be afraid. . . . There will be no war. . . . My sons will not provide the money for it this time. ..." She died at 94 in the house with the green shield, in Jew Street. "Here," she used to say, "I have seen my sons grow rich and powerful, and I will leave them their prosperity, for they would certainly lose it if I were to give way to pride and quit my humble home...