Word: sergeanting
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...Meknes, in inland Morocco, a bored French sergeant marched a platoon through the white deserted streets before dawn one day last week, posted his men at strategic street corners. The men lit cigarets and waited...
...sunset the blood-spattered streets of Meknes were deserted. The French sergeant assembled his platoon, marched it back to barracks...
...breathless question was asked and left unanswered last week in sweltering official Ottawa: "Can the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons arrest a Senator of the Dominion and lock him up in the Tower of Parliament?"* Reason such an arrest seemed likely was that Senator Wilfred Laurier McDougald of Montreal had refused to appear before a Committee of the House and was considered in contempt of Parliament...
...this rallying cry Scotch M. P.'s of the "Clydeside Group"? hurled themselves upon the Sergeant-at-Arms' parliamentary posse. Began a serious fist fight...
...last time Sergeant-at-Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel had to act in an emergency (an Honorable Member was trying to carry off the Mace?TIME, July 28, 1930), his old sword caught his old legs and tripped him neatly as he tried to rise from his little wooden pew. But last week Sir Colin Keppel and his six elderly assistants in full evening dress had plenty of time. Stiff and still stood their quarry. Slowly, majestically they made at John McGovern and laid hands upon...