Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feng and Wu. Super-Tuchun Feng, who has dominated Peking since he traitorously seized it from Wu (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924), was last week either at Urga, Mongolia, whither he had fled; or he had sneaked back over 1,000 miles to Peking and was waiting there in secret to dicker with Wu, when the latter should arrive from a place unstated...
...with the injunction to "put em up." At the point of a revolver Atherton backed into the room where his two companions sat. Offering to shoot the first one who moved, the intruder, who was a stocky foreigner of swarthy aspect, sidled toward the door and fled...
Bitterly was the marriage rued. The whole court was witness of her unhappiness. Bothwell disdained her openly, visited his former wife, was so cruel that she threatened kill herself. Her people and her nobles united against her; she fled Edinburgh with Bothwell. With Mary beside him, his forces and the enemy ultimately came face to face at Carberry Hill. She could make terms for herself, none for him. Bothwell's outnumbered troops wavered and muttered. He waited no longer; with a hasty word to her he mounted and fled, to die an exile, in prison...
Notable anti-Fascist expatriates affected by the law: 1) Former Premier Nitti, who fled from Italy without a passport two years ago, and is supposed to be financing the anti-Fascist journal, Corriere d'ltalia, now published in France. 2) Professor Salyemini, Florentine historian and philosopher, now delivering anti-Fascist lectures in London, "because I feel safer with the waves of the Channel between me and Fascismo." 3) Former Editor Nenni of the suppressed Italian Socialist newspaper, Avanti, once edited by Premier Mussolini in his Socialist days...
...Pachura, and "the wife and child of C. H. Sharratt, Manager of the Guadalajara branch of the Bank of Montreal." President Calles at once ordered 4,000 Federal troops to pursue the bandits, or "revolutionaries," to a ranch known as " Quitupan" in the state of Jalisco, whither they had fled after escaping on the engine of the wrecked train...