Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the sun had kissed the grand old Hradsany good night, Harry had not returned for similar caresses from his anxious wife. The dawn of another morning confirmed the fears of dozens of business men: Harry had fled. Mrs. Gray, ruminating upon her pillow, remembered that she was poorer. Investigation showed that she was bankrupt...
...progress of the second Honduran revolution of the year (TIME, Aug. 11) was obscured by revolutionary haze. Close upon the reported killing of two Americans came the news that Gen. Gregorio Ferrera had fled to the mountains, without, however, neglecting to take troops, rifles, vast quantities of ammunition...
...scanty attire more than 100 men and women fled through the smoke-filled halls and escaped to the street, while firemen battled with great sheets of flame that swept in from the open sea at a velocity of sixty miles an hour. At the suggestion of the mayor, however, the indorsement was made unanimous...
Almost six months have fled since the Spanish Dictator, Captain-General Primo Rivera, exiled for criticizing his august régime the venerated littérateur, Don Miguel de Unamuno. And so, willy-nilly, off went the poet-philosopher, erstwhile Rector of Salamanca University to Godforsaken Puerto Cabras in the isle of Fuerteventura in the horrid, torrid zone...
...rare thing for a Cathedral to be built in Britain. Immortal centuries have fled since the great days of Sir Christopher Wren, but, apparently, the art of Cathedral-building has not been lost. Liverpool Cathedral is the largest ecclesiastical building in Britain, being inferior only to St. Peter's at Rome, and Seville Cathedral in Spain. Moreover, it is said to be the finest example of Gothic architecture in the world, "as impressive as York Minster, as powerful as St. Paul's, as serene as Westminster...