Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Paris and entertains amusingly on her visits to Manhattan, gave her annual Manhattan costume ball. The invitations bade 350 guests come dressed as their "opposites." Miss Maxwell rigged herself in pantaloons and high stiff collar as Herbert Hoover. Actress Ina Claire went as Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning, her escort was disguised as the Bishop's current antagonist, ex-Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (TIME, Dec. 15). Dancer Adele Astaire thought she was the opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons chose to dress as "Ladies of the Temperance...
...Plate of Gold. When the U. S. special puffed into New Flower, a coal-black band with an olive-skinned conductor blared "The Star Spangled Banner." Amid a 17-gun salute Abyssinia's Crown Prince greeted the beaming U. S. Ambassador and his stern escort, Brig.-General William W. Harts, U. S. A. Smartly escorted by native cavalry the U. S. party clattered off to their hotel, dined there that night on the King of Kings' own gold plate, loaned for the occasion as an especial mark of Royal favor...
Vice President Charles Curtis journeyed last week to Kansas City, Mo., enunciated further footnotes to the Congressional Campaign. After breakfast next morning he waited in his hotel lobby for a committee of city officials to come to escort him in state to the station. When they failed to arrive as train time approached, the Vice President called a taxi. The hotel doorman, unwilling to see the nation's No. 2 executive depart unhonored, jumped in beside him, escorted him to the Union Station behind five motorcycle police...
...been speeded across the Pacific by the steamer Hikawa Maru, 12 hr. ahead of schedule, had to sail out of New York aboard the Leviathan four days later in order to be laid before the League of Nations' Preparatory Commission on Disarmament at Geneva Nov. 6. Piloting the escort plane, to carry on in case of accident to Lieut. Woodring, was 26-year-old Lieut. William W. Caldwell. Over the Rockies flew the couriers, into a Wyoming blizzard. Lieut. Woodring emerged, after two forced landings. Not until landing in Cleveland next day did he learn that his escort...
...needs of Romans. Two years ago two sons of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Prince Gustaf Adolf and Prince Sigvard, visited Mr. Eastman in Rochester. A few months later Mr. Eastman instructed Nils Bouveng, Eastman Kodak Co. representative in Europe and a native of Stockholm, to escort Dr. Burkhart on an inspection of dental facilities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark...