Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Defense Minister Groener originally won fame, just after the armistice, by stepping resolutely into the post left vacant by General Erich Ludendorff, when that great neurasthenic fled in disguise to Sweden. It was Groener who ably and steadfastly assisted Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg to hustle home the huge, defeated German armies in safety and good order...
...circled round to Longfellow's own house, where his daughter still resides. Near the house is the site of the 'Spreading Chestnut Tree.' The cottage of the 'Village Blacksmith' remains. About here there are many exquisite Colonial houses. Those that belonged to the Tories (i.e., the British loyalists who fled before the Revolutionists) are still identified by their white chimneys with a black band...
...unsteady brighter flame. He writes their brief biographies with understanding and sympathy, better than he wrote his own and similar biography with its perhaps ironic title, Tramping on Life. For him these not great but very gracious poems have a special charm. The regiment of versifiers whom fame has fled is a fine and comfortable company...
...Think of it, brethren! . . . Rather a base and contemptible piece of diplomacy, methinks. My old college friend,* the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's fled to the highlands of Scotland to avoid meeting the distinguished tourist...
Free again, the love-mad young lad fled with his bien aimee to Bulgaria, whence the runaway Princess was brought back to Bucharest under strong guard at the request of Queen Marie, who drove through the streets with her to still the rumors of her elopment. After this Princess Ileana is supposed to have tried to kill herself (means unspecified...