[Ads-l] The cavalry arrives in the nick of time.

[Jonathan Lighter]

[1914 _Baltimore Sun_ (June 14) Italians Burn Two Churches...Had not a
detachment of cavalry arrived there in the nick of time, the rioters, who
had sprinkled the cathedral with petroleum, would have caused its utter
destruction.]

1924  _Miami Herald_ (Nov. 16) 22: Some of his experiences during the
Indian wars have been made the basis of novels....The cavalry actually
arrived in the nick of time.

1931 _New Orleans States_ (Feb. 2) 8:  "Beau Ideal," sequel to "Beau
Geste," is featured on the screen....The cavalry arrives in the nick of
time and the boys are freed.

1932 _Boston Globe_ (July 20) 14: The good old days, when the United States
Cavalry always arrived in the nick of time.

1936 _Trenton Evening Times_ (Parade of Youth) 6: _Wild West_...starring
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey...But the United States Cavalry arrives in
the nick of time to save everybody.

1939 _Dallas Morning News_ (July 9) 8: The McKinney Examiner, like the
Second U.S. Cavalry, arrives in the nick of time.

1953 _Springfield [Mass.] Sunday Republican_ (Dec. 13) 16C:  The cavalry
arrived in the nick of time in the shape of two bluecoats [police officers]
who didn't understand the Micmac language.

Etc.

JL

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