Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Erwin Piscator is best known as the onetime head of Berlin's great Volksbuehne (People's Theatre), which boasted the incredible total of 250,000 subscribers. A Communist, Piscator fled Germany when the Nazis took over, now carries on his broad theatrical experimentation in the U.S.S.R. Case of Clyde Griffiths bears the Piscator stamp, offers U. S. theatregoers for the first time a comprehensive idea of an entirely new set of values he is trying to bring to the stage...
...Palisade, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, members of a nondenominational Union Church last week dismissed their spectacular pastor, Rev. Vincent Godfrey Burns, 42, ostensibly for having called them "cutthroats, skunks, snobs, greedy aristocrats." Pastor Burns has an equally spectacular brother, Robert Elliott Burns, who fled from a Georgia work camp, wrote a book about it (I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang), three years ago persuaded Governor Moore of New Jersey not to send him back. Year ago, toward the close of the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in Flemington, N.J., Preacher Vincent Burns leaped...
Vridar Hunter, agonized self-student, was given something else to think about when his wife killed herself because he planned to leave her for another woman. Vridar tormented himself with remorse, thought long of suicide and even made abortive attempts. He fled from Chicago, where he had been studying for his Ph.D., went to Washington with Athene, the other woman. There he decided to pull himself together, face himself without flinching. As a first step he went back to Chicago and took his degree. Then he got a job teaching, first at his old college in Salt Lake City, then...
...Francisco; in San Francisco. From police court lawyer, he rose to head the Union Labor Party, secured the election of a popular musician as mayor, established headquarters in a French restaurant, "The Pup," where he blandly collected huge honoraria from those wanting special privilege. Confronted by evidence, Ruef fled, was caught, finally convicted of bribery. Paroled in 1915 from San Quentin, where he taught Bible classes, he entered real estate, piled up a comfortable legal fortune...
...advanced on the Government forces in the nearby police headquarters. Against the veterans President Ayala had only the police and the crews of the Paraguayan Navy's five gunboats. The gunboats dropped shells into the square. The veterans replied with their old trench mortars. That night the President fled to a gunboat whence he radioed his resignation. He was confined in the marine barracks. More dangerous, Estigarribia and Presidential Candidate Luis Riart were arrested. Next afternoon Colonel Franco stepped out of an Argentine plane at Asunción, made himself Provisional President, set up a Government...