Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator spoke of the effect produced on Ethiopians when invading Italians set up at Aduwa the first cinema projector the town had ever seen, and invited the whole town to see the show. "I am not sure that was a work of Civilization," sardonically remarked Mussolini. "The natives fled to the hills as if from the Devil. Perhaps they were right...
...deed done, he fled from England with his daughter-south to Marseille, to Africa, to the Italian islands, to Berlin. He doubled and twisted cunningly to shake off the dreaded pursuer, but his hope dwindled. One night he gave himself away by getting drunk and writing a letter to his enemy, addressing it to Hell but in care of the proper London business address. After that it was only a matter of time before the pursuer found his hiding place. At last Wace went to earth in Berlin, smuggled himself into his daughter's apartment and decided never...
International News Service was led to believe that the Lindberghs had fled simply to escape the approaching tumult over Murderer Hauptmann's execution scheduled for this month. The New York Sun reported that Mrs. Hauptmann had planned to take her child to the Lindberghs' doorstep on Christmas Day, plead for her husband's life. Canvassing of every available Lindbergh relative and associate brought confidential information that the Lindberghs had gone away ''for a three-week Christmas vacation." "until spring," "for a year," "forever...
Finally the Deputies of France grew tired of M. Besson. By a vote of 335 to 28, they booted him out of office as a psychopathic case. Fat Inspector "Bouboule" was assigned to capture him. While the vote was being counted Besson fled. To a police brigadier waiting to clap hands on him, Besson snarled, "Do not touch me, I have my Parliamentary immunity. The vote, my friend, has not yet been counted." Out the back door he slipped again, and "Bouboule" found himself ignominiously suspended from the police department for one month...
...Rousseau," wrote the 18th Century equivalent of True Confession stories, carried Rousseau's ideas to the logical absurdity of idealizing prostitution. A more impressive figure, Tilly was a minor Casanova in the period after the Revolution, left a volume of memoirs that have only recently been translated. Tilly fled to Philadelphia, where he ingratiated himself with the wealthy Bingham and Baring families, married a 15-year-old Bingham heiress, received ?5,000 cash and ?500 yearly to divorce her. With more modern figures, Ellis is less successful. Obviously disliking Proust, obviously repelled by Proust's mysterious masterpiece...