Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the French captured Suedia, capital of the Jebel Druse, and relieved a French garrison, which had held in a state of seige by the natives there for 66 days. Sultan Atrasch followed by thousands of his tribesmen fled to the hills. In Paris there were rejoicings at "the beginning of the end of French troubles in Syria...
Zizi, a desperate young thing, wandered through the Bois de Boulogne, where lovers are wont to prowl. But the lovers had fled far away leaving the Bois empty, save for gendarmes. Three days Zizi spent in the park while the man who had first wooed her from the Malayan jungle, wrung his hands in distress. Then one morning she left the park to visit a boys' school. The master spied her, called gendarmes. She fled into a lavatory, jumped out of a window, but the gendarmes pursued her with bullets and she died in a ditch. The leopard hunter...
...Tokyo a court sentenced Gaku Sano, one-time professor at Waseda University, to ten months in jail for attempting to form a secret Communistic Society. He had recently returned and surrendered himself for trial, having fled to Russia two years ago when the Tokyo police were lodging radical on radical in jail...
Trouble finally broke out. Peruvians selling the Peruvian papers were attacked by Chileans. They fled up the street and took refuge in General Pershing's vestibule. In the presence of the General's aides Chileans actually stoned the Peruvian newsboys-with potatoes...
...Hongkong, a Chinese passenger jumped off a street car, leaving behind him a shrieking bomb, especially designed to put an end to the existence of a strikebreaking driver. He fled. So did the passengers. The bomb exploded. The car blew up. One passenger was injured...