Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bankruptcies became front-page news in New York early in January when an attorney named David Steinhart, receiver and Republican politician, fled, leaving bankruptcy books $50,000 short. Judge Winslow had sponsored his appointment many times. Steinhart was indicted. Officials chased him; disguised in red whiskers, through Canada. Charles Shongood, U. S. auctioneer, was removed from office, indicted for conspiracy and embezzlement. Panicky, the Federal judges in Manhattan switched bankruptcy cases from personal receivers to the American Exchange Irving Trust Co. A grand jury gathered more evidence...
Suppose that the Emperor Napoleon- had fled to the U. S., instead of surrendering to Britons. How much would that have changed the history of the world...
...torches which made the moon turn pale, leaping, screaming, writhing black bodies, blood-maddened, sex-maddened, god-maddened, drunken, whirled and danced their dark saturnalia, heads thrown weirdly back as if their necks were broken, white teeth and eyeballs gleaming, while couples seizing one another from time to time fled from the circle, as if pursued by furies, into the forest to share and slake their ecstasy." Author Seabrook understood the totality of this abandon following as it did upon ceremonial Voodoo rites of purification. He himself, a white, an American, shared in the rites. At his initiation ceremony...
Expectations that His Majesty's position would quickly become untenable were strengthened by reports, possibly premature, that he had fled Kabul by airplane, established himself in Kandahar and abdicated in favor of his brother Inayatullah Khan...
History and legend are filled with plagues, most horrific of which was the Black Death which scourged Europe in the middle of the Fifteenth Century. When Boccaccio's characters fled Florence in 1438 and spent their exile telling the stories of the Decameron, they thus escaped a swift, nauseous blight which, so the tales run, made dark convulsions of men's faces, twisted tortures of their bodies...