Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jail. Ten freshmen of Butler University of Indianapolis, Ind., fled to a jail rather than submit to further rough initiations at the hands of members of the Tau Kappa Tau fraternity. They played cards, sang songs, ate food supplied by the father of one of them. Big TKT men promised "action" when the freshmen left jail...
...restlessness broke out in Ohio, too. At St. Clairsville, police hunted for "Red Head Carrie" Cressi, aged 18, for leading a crew of older termagants to hurl bricks at the Crabapple Mine, injuring Superintendent Tom Willis. But "Red Head Carrie" had fled home to Detroit. A mob of 200 unionists in the Flower Mine district (also near St. Clairsville) rambled down the highway flinging chunks of rock into non-union windows. Out of one window a shotgun blurted answer. Police locked up the shooter for safekeeping. Governor Donahey of Ohio sent word: "The law must be obeyed. If violence continues...
Morning came. We wanted breakfast. "Holloa! Holloa!" we called to our porters. No answer. We looked about us--not a striped tie. We used powerful glasses--not a club-carrying guide in sight. Crazed with terror by the strange surroundings, they had fled while we slept. What...
...Including Harry M. Blackmer and James E. O'Neill, both of whom fled the U. S. in 1924 when the Continental Co.'s affairs were first questioned, and both of whom refuse to return to the U.S. to testify...
...orbital ridges were the very dragons of his nursery books. And they were alive-huge, dark monsters nine feet long, who raised themselves on post-like legs to glare at the strange thing in the air. They showed no fear: during a million years all beasts on Komodo had fled from their voracity...