Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regime in theory but in practice they had carried Catalonia off by herself on the political loose. Zealots plastered up everywhere manifestoes reading PRIVATE PROPERTY IS CONFISCATED AND COLLECTIVIZED! This meant that doors of wealthy and middle class homes were burst in by plundering Barcelona crowds. Ahead of them fled such terrified Spaniards as famed Guitarist Andres Segovia and his wife who were obliged to leave behind her jewels and his children by a previous marriage...
...case proved to be Playwright George S. Kaufman (Dinner at Eight, Of Thee I Sing). Depicted as the "Perfect Lover" in Actress Astor's memoirs, Kaufman had ignored a subpoena to testify. Before a warrant for his arrest could be served on him, he had secretly fled from Hollywood to Manhattan. "There won't be any settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite a play about life in jail!" In Manhattan...
...week came from Adolf Hitler. In Germany every newsorgan wrathfully published news that Reds of Barcelona affiliated with the Spanish Government had slain four Germans who were hailed as "Nazi Martyrs." In vain pinko-red French newspapers insisted that the four slain men were Socialists who had fled from Germany to Spain to escape Nazi persecution. To Adolf Hitler they were "Nazi Martyrs" anyhow, and Der Reichsfiihrer took appropriate steps...
...thought our last moment had come. She missed, but she could have torpedoed us or rammed us. She did none of these things. Our Italian Capronis dived on her and she fled...
...dispute about wages, the punishment was drastic: 80 men were arrested by the Civil Guard. When a protest meeting was held it was fired on, and 24 were killed. The aged Marquis woke up too late to a realization of his overseer's villainy and his own neglect, fled his estate. Caro married Lucia after her child was born, took her with him when he went to Asturias to work in the mines. He soon found himself a leading figure among the miners. He made up with Mudarra grudgingly, killed a police spy who had unmasked his friend...