Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arms behind his back, shouted: "You're kidnapped!" McClatchy flung them off, punched one in the jaw, the other in the stomach. "Give him the works!" cried one of the snatchers, and a pistol bullet pierced McClatchy's chest, buried itself in his belly. The kidnappers fled. McClatchy died four days later in a Philadelphia hospital...
...clothes, took photographs of them, prepared literature for a grand swindle in London. He had just bought postage to distribute the literature when a newspaper exposed his knavery. Incorrigible Jake the Barber sued the British Government for the postage, lost the suit. He returned in 1929 and before he fled England for the last time had amassed $7,000,000 from a fraudulent stock selling campaign. Last April his son Jerome, a student at Northwestern, was kidnapped, returned for $50,000. It was Jerome who last week set up the machinery to buy back his father. From Oklahoma, Virginia, Florida...
...very well for German business with a big "B" but in politics the Cabinet proceeded to carry on with arbitrary violence. Thirty laws were decreed at a single Cabinet sitting between 11 a. m. and midnight. Mainly these were aimed at "hostile and disloyal" Germans, particularly those who have fled the country, mostly Jews, Communists and Socialists. By a stroke of the Chancellor's pen the Cabinet seized power to deprive all such persons of German citizenship and confiscate their property. "What we shall take from the Jews," grinned an indiscreet Treasury official, "will be a big help...
Built in 1759 by Colonel John Vassall, Jr., a Tory, who fled at commencement of Revolution. Occupied by Washington as headquarters from July 1775, to April, 1776. Subsequently bought by Andrew Craigie, from whose estate Longfellow purchased it about 1843. Generally called Craigie House. Before sale to Longfellow it was occupied by Jared Sparks, Edward Everett and Joseph E. Worcester, of dictionary fame. Open to visitors only on Saturday afternoons from...
...adventurous and egocentric life, whose parts do not always fit neatly together. A wild young aristocrat in pre-War Russia, leading a riotous life as an officer in the Tsar's "Horses' Guards" and moving in very "hyg" society, he was also a Nihilist who fled to Paris, was extradited and sent to Siberia. Describing himself as "the Don Juan of Our Days," he was in constant fun-paying arrears. "My good living with pretty gerls cost me planty money and brogth me in the claws of those wampyres of the humanity-the crooky jew usurers." Once...