Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former professor of English at the University of Illinois, now a Fansteel attorney. Remembering the battle towers used in ancient siege operations he designed it, but with bad scholarship dubbed it "The Wooden Horse." * After more than an hour's bombardment from this ingenious device, the sit-downers fled from the plants, were allowed to escape, although warrants had been issued for their arrest...
...prediction that his White Army would be received with "enthusiasm" on entering Catalonia by all except the terrorist Red element. Few days later, his Whites finally overwhelmed Malaga, the last enemy stronghold on Spain's south coast, broadcast that they had been welcomed with "enthusiasm" while Red militia fled headlong from the city, as well they might. Few hours after No. 2 White General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, "The Radio General," entered Malaga he broadcast that he was setting up courts-martial, that "Marxists will be instantly executed!" By nightfall nearly 5,000 persons had been rounded up. Released...
ESCAPE TO THE TROPICS-Desmond Holdridge-Harconrt, Brace ($2.50). Fresh account, with photographs, of a blissful experiment in "savagery, barbarism and civilization" at bargain prices on the island of St. John, V. I., by a newlywed pair who fled New York to escape the big corporations, the political rabies of their Depression-time friends. On a side trip into Dutch Guiana Author Holdridge found warm, if contradictory clues to the fate of Paul Redfern, the lost flyer, but lacked money to follow them...
...hint that the Whites were mainly trying during the bitter winter weather to keep as many Militia in the north as possible while in Spain's sunny south the Generalissimo was rumored quietly preparing a White offensive against Valencia, the seaport to which the Madrid Cabinet long since fled (TIME, Nov. 16). Spunky General José Miaja, defender of Spain's erstwhile Capital, was holding out ably last week, issuing such proclamations as "The people of Madrid will eat their shoes before they surrender!" Red beans were what Madrid was mostly eating and General Miaja was cajoling...
...past Composer Prokofieff has not objected to statements that he was an exile, his property having been confiscated after he fled the Revolution. At last week's Chicago concert, program notes had it that he left Russia with the Soviet Government's per- mission "in consequence of the general confusion." In any case, Russian Prokofieff now maintains an apartment in Moscow, where his sons Sviatoslav, 12, and Eleg, 7, are being brought up. Thither last week he had a new Ford shipped...