Word: fled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...made a treaty with the Seminole Indians* whereby they ceded their Florida lands to the U. S., promised to move to what is now Arkansas. They failed to move. The Seminole War (1835-42), fiercest of Indian struggles, followed. Defeated, the Seminoles fled, some to Arkansas, many more into the murky wilderness of the Everglades. Solicitous of their welfare, the U. S. began an attempt to round them up out of the swamps where they have remained to this good day. A 23,542-acre reservation in Florida was waiting for them if only they would come out of their...
Bulgaria's War-time Prime Minister, Vasil Radoslavoff, has spent the past eleven years in exile, with his son-in-law's spare bedroom at Berlin as his base. Last week Exile Radoslavoff, who fled his country when Tsar Ferdinand was forced to abdicate the Bulgarian throne in 1918, was unofficially told that he might return to Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Sobranye (Assembly) had passed the third reading of a bill pardoning those ministers who were condemned to life imprisonment by the government of Alexander Stamboulisky, spectacular peasant...
...Thuraya, lay, heavy and silent, in her deck chair. She had just borne another child (a daughter named India) at Bombay and looked more like a poor emigrant than an exiled queen. Amanullah complained of poverty, said he had only $30, had had to abandon his clothes when he fled from Kandahar, Afghanistan...
...Judd had been in Hawaiian service one year when the British ship Carysfort, Captain George Paulet commanding, sailed into Honolulu Harbor, prepared to take possession of the Island of Oahu. King Kamahameha, frightened, ceded his kingdom, fled to Maui, left Dr. Judd as his agent to deal with Captain Paulet. The British officer became so oppressive that Dr. Judd, unable to negotiate further with him, withdrew to the royal mausoleum in the palace yard. There by the uncertain light of a ship's lantern, Dr. Judd carried on government business using the coffin of Queen Kaahumanu...
Rico's bold murder shattered Accomplice Tony's nerves. Tony, in his rosy-cheeked teens, had driven Rico and the two others from the scene in a big Cadillac. Then Tony, quondam choirboy, fled to a priest to confess it all. Hearing Tony was not a sturdy sinner, Rico gave chase, caught the boy going into the cathedral, silenced him forever with an automatic. Gangsters approved...