Word: escorter
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...Wilmington, N. C., professional, had gone out in 33 and was rounding the turn ahead of everybody. Hancock took a five at the tenth, then played par golf until at the seventeenth green he saw the crowd billowing over the turf to meet him and escort him back the new champion. With ten thousand people milling around him he sliced his teeshot into some heavy loam behind a tree, caught the rough with his pitch, put his third over the green, took a six. On the eighteenth he had another...
...neither of these nobles does it seem "inexplicable" that a pretty woman should accept their joint escort; and to suggest that she was "imprudent" in so doing is clearly a dueling matter...
...upon Kansas City and impress upon the Republican Convention gathered there a sense of their wrongs. The leaders started gallantly out in every town to "raise the countryside" but the farmers were too busy planning so the organizers had to make their own way to the convention without an escort...
...Khartum, on the banks of the upper Nile, it was no longer possible to conceal her passion to win the great race Woman v. Woman. For there British officials stopped her. They positively refused to let her fly over the enemy-infested wastes of the Sudan without an escort. She protested she must fly alone. Was not Lady Sophie flying that very day alone? Not so, said they; Lady Sophie, flying north over the Sudan, had also been forced to take an escort from the other side-a young lieutenant, snatched from the bride with whom he was honeymooning...
...investigation began with the setting up of headquarters at the William Penn hotel in Pittsburgh. Presidents J. D. A. Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and Horace W. Baker of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. called, to request that the Senators would make their tour without any escort from the United Mine Workers whose officials, insisted the operators, would be sure to distort conditions. Philip Murray, the Mine Workers' vice president, was more persuasive, however, and a union delegation accompanied the tourists, on the understanding that Mr. Murray was to be kept away from the operators' superintendents...