Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anxiously, scribble hastily. "Not the Grace Moore who sang in Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, in Hitchy-Koo, in Up in the Clouds?" It was that same pretty girl, native of Jellicoe, Tenn., one-time music student at the Wilson-Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried...
...sank over $25,000,000 worth of allied shipping without killing a man, how he entertained his prisoners on seized luxuries and costly wines so that they protested against being set ashore, how he fled on his armed schooner through the ice floes of Cape Horn and eluded a waiting enemy squadron by fabricated wireless messages are details which read like the imagined adventures of the veriest romancer. The loss of the Seeadler and his further adventures in the Pacific, the description of the life-boat armed and converted into a raider crossing a thousand miles of open ocean...
...feathery, furry bodies to stuff them with dead, hard matter. From the green lowlands, Dr. Chapin started up the side of a glacial mountain of the Ruwenzori Range. In sight of snow, 50 miles from the equator, his blackamoors, convinced that the strange whiteness was the touch of death, fled...
...called to the Foreign Office first as head of the Eastern Department and after as State Secretary of Foreign Affairs - the permanent head of the German Foreign Office. His greatest diplomatic ordeal was doubtless in persuading the Kaiser to abdicate. Wilhelm II, at the time he fled from Germany, had not officially abdicated, his renunciation of the throne having been announced without Imperial authority by Chancellor Prince Max of Baden. Baron von Maltzan was therefore sent to Amerongen Castle to secure the Kaiser's formal abdication as German Emperor and King of Prussia. For three days the Kaiser refused...
...suddenly centred on the dusty pit he was making for a dead man. As big as chisels, as little as rusty pins, the hungry red worms swarmed into the grave. At last, terrified, the gravedigger leaped out of the grave, pitched shovelfuls of dirt to bury the worms, then fled, screeching...