Word: patroller
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...Coolidge pressed this bell repeatedly, scampered quickly away. To the north portico rushed a detail of Secret Service men, to whom the bell's ringing was a summons to come at once. From a distance, the President watched their confusion, heard them ask the Secret Service man on patrol duty why he had rung the bell, heard the patrolman's denial of any bell-ringing. After the guards had dispersed, the President stole back, again pressed the button, again trotted away, chuckled as the previous scene repeated itself. Pleased, the President several times repeated his little prank. Eventually...
...activities of the International Ice Patrol, which cooperates to a great extent with the Harvard Museum or Comparative Zoology, are depicted in a film called "Icebergs". The patrol has been in existence since the Titanic disaster, anti from that time on the Curator of Oceanography of the Harvard Museum has continuously served as scientific adviser to the Ice Patrol, and most of this time except during the World War, the navigating officer has been stationed at the Harvard Museum, working on scientific material gathered on the cruises...
Simultaneously with the closing of the 30 docks at Windsor, eleven U. S. border-patrol inspectors were arrested in Detroit by their superiors and charged with bribe-taking, conspiracy...
...late Admiral George Dewey, the S. S. Maryland fetched up and hove to off Cape San Lucas, lower California. Two launches were lowered for a late-afternoon fishing expedition. Captain Victor A. Kimberley, the Maryland's commander, put off in a third boat to act as a patrol against unimaginable dangers from the desolate Mexican shore. In his hands rested the safety of his country's President-elect...
...Boston firm. And before long he was buying cotton at 12? a pound in the South, selling it at $2 in the North. Some days he bought $800,000 worth, only to lose it (well insured) on the Mason Dixon line. One day, pursued by a Rebel patrol, he tossed them his wallet stuffed with $300,000, and made off with his more precious life...