Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Bavaria were hailed as King and Queen of Bavaria. The Prince was accompanied by Dictator von Kahr and many of the aristocracy. It was the first public appearance of the Dictator, and the occasion was a reunion and grand celebration of the veterans of the Leibregiment, the defunct Royal Bodyguard, disbanded by order of the Allies under the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty. Twenty thousand men responded to the roll-call of the regiment. It was pointed out that if 20,000 men answered the call of one regiment, it is reasonable to presume that...
Dead at the cross-roads are four other men which the soon-completed village crowd recognize as Villa's secretary, Villa's chauffeur, Villa's personal bodyguard...
...Bagdad the civil jail was destroyed, but the prisoners were saved. The embankment round the city is holding and there is no fear of its crumbling. King Feisal is said to be personally responsible for saving the palace and the cultivated land near it. His bodyguard, under his supervision and spurred on by encouraging strains from an Arab band, repaired damage to the embankment encircling the royal property...
...Mayor of Tokyo, Viscount Goto, selected Shojo Usui, veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, who holds the fourth rank of the Kodo-kan School of Jiu-Jitsu, to be his bodyguard. The Mayor chose a jiu-jitsu exponent because he believes that this famous art of self-defense is the most effective. Mayor Goto has recently received threatening letters because of his connection with the visit of A. A. Joffe, representative of the Russian Soviet...
...expected all at once. The Mexican army, once given official recognition to distinguish it from the rest of the armed citizenry of the republic, and the war office budget have both been reduced materially in the last two years. Railroad trains no longer carry the bodyguard of regiments...