Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conn, appointed Sportswriter William O'Connell McGeehan of the New York Herald Tribune to be an honorary deputy. To an interviewer from his own newspaper, Mr. McGeehan told how he had been a deputy before, when 13 convicts escaped 25 years ago from Folsom Prison in California and fled toward Nevada. Deputy McGeehan's posse started after them with bloodhounds and, after days and nights of travelling, passed close to a spot where three of the quarry were hiding. ''After the second day the country was so tough the bloodhounds gave...
...Marie liked her husband less and less, got the marriage annulled, went back to Russia. Meantime she visited Italy for her health, and there was a patient of "Dr. M." (Axel Munthe, author of The Story of San Michele), whom she grew to distrust and finally fled. During the War she worked as a nurse, first at the front, later in hospitals. When the Revolution came Marie had met her second husband, Prince Putiatin. They were married in the midst of Red uproars. With him she outlasted the terrors of the winter and in 1918 they escaped over the Ukrainian...
...artillery and infantry garrison has rebelled," she whispered excitedly. "Agitators are running through the streets shouting 'Viva la Republica!' Hundreds of citizens have fled to the mountains. The rebels have killed two civil guards and one carabinier in street fights. They have mounted cannon inside the old Roman walls. Tomorrow they march against Huesca. They say that Major Franco is leading the rebels, but nobody has seen him. They...
...Einstein especially dreaded his reception in New York. He remembered his visit nine years ago when, to find peace from questioning, he fled to the roof of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, played his violin alone among the chimneys. "I suffer more than anybody can imagine," he said then...
...them interrupted the orchestra, seized a megaphone and-as every one acquainted with the place had expected would happen some day soon- announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, the next number of the program will be a raid. The place is in the custody of the Federal Government." Hostess Livingstone fled across her wee golf course, tried to get to one of the windows which she had prudently equipped with rope ladders to the street below. She was caught, jailed, later released on $2,000 bond. The entertainment over, the cheer confiscated, dismally the guests went home. It was not the first...