Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were busy urging the miners to seize the mines and hold them until the employers came to terms. Strikebreakers were employed by the mine owners and had a rough time. At Gelsenkirchen 600 maddened miners' wives rushed the Königsgrube Mine to oust the "blacklegs"; the men fled before their terrible onslaught...
Young Ahmad Mirza, 26-year-old Shah of Persia, loved pleasure and gambled too much on the Riviera (TIME, March 10). His 36 ministers last week deposed him. His young brother, the Crown Prince, aged 25, fled the capital. His baby son, aged 2, was named Shah. Thereupon much monstrous agitation for the creation of a republic collapsed. The 36 ministers will enjoy the pleasures of regency for 19 years...
...most prodigiously dull dinner of my experience." But despite his misfortune one would not have had him miss it. There were 13 speakers, which may have had something to do with it. It began with Heywood Broun, who "said a few graceful things of no special import and then fled craftily into the night." And it dragged on through all the other twelve, with various victims rising and stealing toward the door, till at length "the gaps in the audience made the room look like an old comb with half its teeth gone. The faithful remainder sat weary, wilted, their...
...deputies, in terror of arrest with the lapse of their parliamentary immunity, fled in all directions. Deputy Thomas cropped his radical locks Hindenburg style, but was recognized by the police and only escaped by hiding in a coal heap...
...about to enter his villa on the outskirts of Rome. Masked robbers followed him, stabbed him, beat him with steel gloves, relieved him of 1,300 lire and his gold presentation medals. Soon afterwards came the Senator's chauffeur upon the scene. He fired his revolver; the robbers fled. The Carabinieri arrested two suspects, Senator Bergamini was removed to a hospital...