Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt drove down to the railway station to meet his military aide, Lieut. Colonel Edwin Watson, who was to accompany him to Chicago. "Come on, Pa," said the President, welcoming the colonel into his car. They tootled through the Foundation grounds, to the wooded hillside where the Presidential Marine guard was tenting. Pointing, the President said: "There's your tent, Pa. It's been pretty chilly lately but I think you'll be all right with a good army blanket. The stove is a bit rusty but the boys will build a fire...
Charging to the front of the platform, Coordinator Berry shook his hairy fist, bellowed: "You're another liar and I'll make you eat that!" Through the seething crowd plunged a flying wedge of policemen to stand guard around Protestor Haake & friends. Boos, roars, catcalls sounded through the hall as the first session of Coordinator Berry's promotion party for Government & Business co-operation broke up in confusion...
...Duchess of Gloucester canceled a shooting trip; peers put away their golden coronets, peeresses their tiaras and Parliament was opened in drab mourning. For the first time British historians could remember since the Guy Fawkes plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 those decorative warriors, the Yeomen of the Guard, did not make last week their traditional search of the cellars of Parliament before it convened to make sure that no explosives had been hidden there. Parliament opened quietly with the Lord High Chancellor, Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, reading the King's Speech of grieving George...
Shooting against the First Cadet Corps of the National Guard, the Rifle Club will stage its second match of the season next Tuesday...
...matter how few the casualties, one person almost certain not to survive the Ethiopian war has been Lij Yasu, "Child of Jesus," the 38-year-old onetime Emperor of Ethiopia. Deposed by Haile Selassie in 1916, Lij Yasu has since 1926 been a closely guarded prisoner in the fortress of Gara Mulata, well fed, comfortably lodged, but handcuffed night & day to the wrist of a guard. Lest Italy should release him, make him a puppet emperor, it was announced weeks ago by the Emperor that "Child of Jesus" had been moved to the shores of southernmost Lake Rudolf...