Word: escorter
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Five minutes to noon. Massed along the pavements of London's Ludgate Hill last week and down the Strand were thousands of excited school children, cynical salesladies, brokers, clerks. Noon. Bow Bells, all the bells of London, clanged in tingling cacophony. An escort of mounted police clattered up the empty street and the great procession started. The Worshipful His Lordship, the new Lord Mayor of London was on has way from Guildhall to take his oath of office at the Courts of Justice in the Strand...
...read, to visit the library. There are always athletic event to see and there is a plebe team in every sport. He is not allowed to go to the Saturday evening hops, but there are always moving pictures on these nights. And over the week end, he can escort his visitors around the Post, and dine with them at the Hotel. There are many pleasant things to do during his spare time. And the Plebe has more time of his own than any man of the upper three classes...
...tender of hospitality by the Prize Drill Platoon, First Corps of Cadets (211th. Coast Artillery Anti-Aircraft) of Massachusetts. Forty men clad in striking uniforms of white jackets with light blue facings and light blue trousers will compose the troop which will first act in the capacity of official escort to the Governor in the morning program. Following the review upon the Common, the platoon will be dismissed at the Armory, and will reassemble in the Yard in time to assist the Reception Committee in Cambridge...
...arrangement with the heating plant the atmosphere over there can be made quite realistic. Fur coats are quite all right and any one who wants to can sing Boola Boola. Men are not great assets during games anyway--they always insist that you listen to the rules, and our escort last year disconcertingly chewed and swallowed the entire program in his excitement. --The Vassar Miscellany...
...landed in San Domingo to safeguard American and foreign interests during a revolution. He saw service in the Gulf of Mexico in 1904 and commanded the Destroyer Tucker, which was in the second group to reach Queenstown, Ireland, in May, 1917, and operated from Queenstown and later on escort duty in the North Atlantic. In June, 1929, after two years spent in Central American waters, he was detached from command of the U. S. S. Cleveland and assigned to duty at Harvard. He has had two tours of duty as instructor at the Naval Academy and two as a member...