Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become an actress when I was in socks." Down upon a San Francisco landing field flew Cinemactress Claudette Colbert and a throat specialist named Dr. Joel J. Pressman. Because an airline clerk had booked them as "Dr. & Mrs. J. J. Pressman," newscameramen were waiting. Deserting Miss Colbert, Dr. Pressman fled across the field...
...suffering humanity, with isolated groups of French deep in Russian lines, crazed Cossacks lost among French refugees. Weary of slaughtering, Cossacks stole clothing, then gave their victims clothing they had stolen from others. Frightened at reports of an "idiotic" coup in Paris, alarmed at the lack of news, Napoleon fled with Caulaincourt across Poland and Germany to reach France ahead of news of the catastrophe. For 14 days they traveled, while Napoleon poured out his theories of monarchy, his opinions on his family and mistresses, discussed England, the future of the U. S.. the characters of his subordinates...
...moved. There has been an "incident," the murder of a "Japanese marine in uniform" in Shanghai (TIME, Nov. 18). and this touched off other incidents last week as Chinese all over China roused one another against the Japanese menace. Mobs in Shanghai stoned Japanese stores and 150,000 Chinese fled the Chinese quarter of Shanghai into the International Settlement, ruled by Occidentals under a U. S. citizen. Secretary General Stirling Fessenden of the Shanghai Municipal Council. What chiefly irritated Japanese last week was the curt announcement of the Occidental police of the International Settlement that the Japanese marine...
...Ginger Group," had glorious news last week from Shanghai where a Japanese squadron is commanded by his brother Rear Admiral Sadasuke Araki. The glorious news: somebody had murdered a Japanese Marine in full uniform near the Japanese Naval headquarters. At this news in utter panic rich & poor Chinese alike fled from Chapei in the native quarter of Shanghai to the International Settlement which proved safe in 1932 when the Japanese blew Chapei to bloody smithereens. If the Araki Brothers were at it again, then woe to China, no matter who murdered the Japanese Marine. As a matter of course, Admiral...
...little less sensational, that most of the figures in the smoky dramas of genius were scarcely mature. Byron was 26 at the time of his disgrace. His sister was 33, Lady Caroline 31, his wife only 24. Shelley was 22 when he abandoned his 19-year-old bride, fled to France with two girls, aged...