Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Albert Einstein fled last week to the suburbs of Berlin to escape the eulogistic clamor evoked by his 50th birthday. While he quietly ate stuffed pike and mushrooms, his Berlin apartment (No. 5 Haberlandstrasse) was deluged with gifts and messages. The gifts included a house from the City of Berlin, an honorary degree from the University of Paris, a promise that his bust will be placed in the tower of Potsdam, an announcement by U.S. Zionists that land will be acquired near Jerusalem for the planting of a wood to be called Einstein Forest. Newsgatherers cornered Frau Einstein...
...mass meeting and issued a "Declaration of Slovak Independence." The whole thing was quite harmless and academic, easily suppressed by the police. In fact the ringleader was just an old botanist of some slight renown, Professor Mihalusz. Scared pink as a geranium by the first police warning. Botanist Mihalusz fled Trencsen for parts unknown?some say Vienna. He must have written the letter which won Slovakia recognition?from Siam...
Vera Cruz Falls. The great oil port of Mexico was captured, early in the week, and then lost to federal troops by General Jesus Maria Aguirre, who fled toward Yucatan. At Pennsylvania Military Academy, Chester, Pa., U. S. A., Cadet Leon Aguirre, doughty general's son, said: "Father can take care of himself. He is an experienced campaigner...
...story would be made out of an encounter with at least a Prussian Oberst! The job was just completed when they were struck dumb with terror by the appearance in the doorway of a herculean figure dressed in the same enemy color, voice and frown suggesting Ludendorff. The thieves fled in opposite directions leaving the mule to stop the Germans...
...then, as always, an artistry of the theatre. She was torn by Ravet's death. She thought she needed Raymond again and went to Biarritz to find him. But he had married without telling her, grown heavy, gone into business and was fathering a family. She fled to Buenos Aires and on board ship she married de Laurac who, she discovered later, preferred to her a slovenish bourgeoise who bore him children...