Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drove on to First National Bank. There they forced the janitor who was washing windows to let them in by a rear door. While one robber directed operations with a submachine gun, another made the assistant cashier open the vault. Having packed $27,600 into two suitcases, the robbers fled. Suspected was Desperado John Dillinger...
...Brooklyn. N. Y., Joseph Schuster, director of St. Alban's Jewish Center, fled his home when he was unable to convince terrorists that he was not Joseph Schuster, Brooklyn Nazi...
...Jeanne Graves, in 1931, twelve days before the end of his term as President of France. An attractive daughter who bore the name of Marthe Graves was a student in the Sorbonne where she met and married Enzo de Bonze, excitable young son of an Italian general, who had fled Italy at the coming of Benito Mussolini. The de Bonzes had three children, were divorced in 1930. Recently Enzo de Bonze sought a reconciliation with his wife. Calling on her on Friday the Thirteenth, he shot himself right before the eyes of his horrified mother-in-law. He died later...
...last week Judge Gary had been dead seven years. The Gary mansion was no more. In its place stood a modern apartment house. There last week, in a 14-room suite on the ninth floor, Death came to his widow. Mrs. Gary had fled from the house where her husband died, had lived on the Gary estate at Jericho, L. I. When the apartment house was built, she returned to the address of many memories. She lived there quietly on her share of Judge Gary's $22,000,000 estate until, seven months ago, a slow, mortal illness laid...
...pajamas and exposed some open sores which he had on his thighs, some souvenirs of lessons in the art of fighting closely . . . but when he laid the upper portion of his body bare . . . there was such a criss-cross of old wounds and new ones that the Briton fled." But Belmonte is still alive. Prudent, he saved enough money to buy a ranch in Andalusia, with his Peruvian wife lives there now, a retired national idol...