Word: fleeing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Civilians Flee...
...Hayes's ingenuity in getting Adrian and Carol alone together on the island. Adrian's father drowns; his mother dies of neurosis; his young wife departs to have a baby, decides to stay for good; Carol's ill-charactered father is killed by blacks, who then flee the island en masse...
Such was the "new Hellenism," which Wilde dramatized to the bitter end. Refusing his friends' advice to flee rather than stand trial, broken by two years' hard labor in prison (productive of his most sincerely questioning work, De Profundis), a drink-cadging exile in the Paris bistros, penniless, bloated, deaf, dying piecemeal at 44 of cerebral meningitis, Oscar could still summon up a deathbed defiance of what he called Philistia. "I am,," said he, tossing off a glass of friends' champagne, "dying beyond my means...
...against Finland has given Whites all over the world new hope. In January tall, hawk-faced Boris Sergievsky, Russian aviator in World War I and now one of the best test pilots in the U. S., sounded the Whites' battle cry: "We who did not flee from Russia but only retreated, our weapons in our hands, are ready now to return." Up to last week the challenge had had only two results: White Russians everywhere lifted champagne to their lips and drank to the challenge, and in Paris last week the price of pre-Soviet Russian bonds jumped...
After spending four months in a Nazi concentration camp and witnessing all the horrors of Jewish persecution in Austria, Dr. Ludwig Schiffer is now at Harvard in the Law School. Until he was forced to flee in December, 1938, Dr. Schiffer was a prominent lawyer in Vienna, but now he must start again as a first year student...