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He also wisely chose as his aides-de-camp a pair of young go-getters, Mike Tamburro and Lou Schwechheimer, both eager to sell pregame tickets and pick up postgame trash to make the venture work.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2015

For half an hour, while friends stood on chairs to watch the ceremony, they presented cards to aides-de-camp, who announced them in precise British accents.

From Time Magazine Archive

But William Bramwell Booth's aides-de-camp would have done with the Booth dynasty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week Cubans doubted the story that his two grown daughters, pistols strapped to their sides, were his aides-de-camp in the field.

From Time Magazine Archive

The general and Colonel von Bourguignon stepped into a window recess, whilst Prince Liechtenstein conversed with the aides-de-camp and Herr von Stielow.

From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Meding, Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar