Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...said to him: 'They can't suspend Brockway if the Mace is not on the table, can they?' " explained Mr. Beckett, adding stoutly to protect his friend Brown: "Before he could reply I had already picked up the Mace. My first surprise was to find how light it was. I thought I could get away with it. If I had, I would have deposited it in the cloakroom and left the House...
Picadors' horses must wear protective pads, to protect the spectators from unseemly sights...
...which if it is not remedied promptly will grow worse." At Rome the Italian Government upped the duty on automobiles, prime U. S. export, by 167% (see p. 24). In Washington Secretary of Commerce Lamont declared that this was not tariff retaliation but an honest effort by Italy to protect its own motor industry. In London, the bankers of Britain, traditionally free-traders, joined in a great manifesto advocating a tariff wall around the British Empire...
...last I can return to my dear son, whom I will protect with all the love of a father and whom I will bring up to love his Fatherland...
...with deepest consideration to their archducal hostess, and, approaching the large, thronelike-chair on which the Archduchess (either Isabella or Augusta) sits, kiss the back of her white-gloved right hand. The left hand is not gloved, a reminder that the sole purpose of the right glove is to protect Imperial Habsburg flesh from contact with lips of lesser clay. By no means ridiculous, the illegal "Royalty" of Budapest are taken in. deadly earnest by the populace, by policemen who snap to attention as the "Royal"' motors pass, even by His Serene Highness Governor Horthy of the Kingdom of Hungary...