Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor Victor E. Lawson of the Willmar (Minn.) Tribune, in his letter published in TIME, May 24, p. 2, reiterates the fiction that the Confederate ship Merrimac (Virginia) was defeated by, and "fled" from, Ericsson's Monitor...
Strike Quips. The London Sketch opened a contest last week to discover "the wildest strike rumor." A cheerful Ananias promptly submitted the following: "I heard during the strike that the King and Queen had fled to the U. S. after abdicating in favor of the Prince of Wales, who was then said to have been assassinated...
...Marshal's rescuers sped to succor him, he, adroit, parleyed with the Nationalist mob. The soldiers came. Pilsudski saw and conquered. While the Nationalists fled, the soldiers stayed to cheer, to work themselves into a frenzy in which they demanded that Pilsudski lead them to Warsaw, overturn the Cabinet, free Poland of scalawags...
...headquarters at the Saxon Palace. His troops tightened the siege of the Nationalists and the President at the Belvedere Palace. Then three Cabinet Ministers flew up and away in an airplane. The President, wearing a steel helmet, escaped by climbing over the wall of the Belvedere Palace and fled on foot. The Government's troops surrendered to Pilsudski...
Anastasia and Tschaikovski then - runs the story - fled to Bucharest, Roumanian capital, where she bore him a son. Tschaikovski was later shot by Bolshevist agents; and "Frau von Tschaikovski" declares that she placed the child in an orphan asylum near Bucharest when she was brought to Berlin by her brother...