Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then I said "goodbye" to my child and fled for home again. Two days before war was declared, the Southampton children were evacuated. Jenny assisted the doctor for two long days inspecting heads, teeth, etc., before these children were sent to billets. We got four-aged...
Most fortunate European refugee of the week was Prince Alexander Hohen-Lohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, a naturalized Pole of Austrian-German extraction who fled to Rumania last month with U. S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Mrs. Biddle and her daughter by a previous marriage, Miss Peggy Schulze. In Paris, with U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt acting as best man, the 21-year-old Prince married 18-year-old Peggy, whose mother is an $85,000,000 copper heiress...
...Poland all capital investments will probably be taken over by Moscow soon, but most of Polish industry is in the German sector and up to this week Berlin had not tampered with Polish stock setups. The Soviet press tauntingly charged last week that "probably" members of the Government which fled from Poland have "private savings in foreign banks...
...previous novels, The Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled, Frederic Prokosch has shown a facile imagination and a brilliant hand at silken, vivid prose. Ostensibly a narrative of travel from Syria to China, The Asiatics told of hair-raising adventures, lubriciously glamorous encounters, incredible coincidences and cosmic conversations with the casual air of an article in the National Geographic. More Spenglerian than picaresque, The Seven Who Fled brought together to their mutual doom seven characters symbolic of European races, let them slowly disintegrate with their bewildered sensuality and inter minable talk into the vast oblivion of Asia...
...readers accompany young Tom through the night when he sees a rape and a lynching, through barren Mississippi and Louisiana into Texas, they may feel that if The Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled could be accepted as truth in Oklahoma, Night of the Poor cannot be so accepted this side of Teheran. The language of Prokosch's Americans is a salty, sometimes melodious mimicry, but it rings false too often in such mixtures as "One can't be sure of nothin'. . . ." He speaks of "oil wells burning through the moth-hung night" in Texas, when...