Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leonine Beethoven. Beethoven, as was his custom, received all visitors with overwhelming cere mony. Schubert was awed by the torrential welcome and when Beethoven, on glancing over some variations dedicated to him by the tim id visitor, appeared to be amazed by what he saw, the panic-stricken composer fled from the house. Such different personalities will soon again be associated together in the news-conscious public mind, for Schubert will be celebrated this year with a centenary festival similar to Beethoven's of last year. The immediate propulsive force of the movement is the announcement by the Columbia...
...Point Sur is already crowded with psychic disturbances. While dry winds blew, followed by a night "striped with lightning" and a day of yellow floods, two boys crucified a hawk; their brother, a visionary, saw the Virgin walking on the sea, mountain tall, mourning her lover; a ranch girl fled to her man to slake her fear of death; the lighthouse keeper's daughter, Faith Heriot, went in a famine of unnatural love to Natalia Morhead, whose husband's act unsexed Faith Heriot two years before. Morhead is not back from the War. Faith nurses his crippled father under...
...merciless person; hundreds of persons have fled for their very lives, to this coun- try, because of the fear with which they held O'Higgins. I do not think there will be any political effect but I do think that sheer fear caused a group to determine to kill him as the only means of safety...
Friends. Since the Conservative President of Nicaragua, Dr. Adolfo Diaz, will now be maintained in office by U. S. marines until 1928, the Liberal President of Nicaragua, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, recognized by Mexico (TIME, Dec. 20), fled to Costa Rica and was banqueted in San Jose last week by a group of Costa Rican deputies...
...their danger, however, only ten lives are definitely known to have been lost in Louisiana, though rumor has listed the dead at more than 100. Nine of the dead belonged to one family, a widowed woman and her eight children. Caught as the flood entered Plaucheville, the Widow Dupré fled with her children to the second story of her home. The water poured into the house, reached the second story, continued to rise. A rescue boat found the entire family huddled together, drowned...