Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quite effusive in telling the father of Sylvester Gardiner '46 last Saturday afternoon that be had seen his son, now missing for almost a month, attending an athletic event in the St. Nicholas Arena in New York City, a mysterious informant fled from the family's Beacon Street home upon the suggestion that he repeat his story to the Cambridge police...
There were many Communists in Burma's jails, but Rangoon's police itched to get their fingers on one more. Hefty Thakin Soe had cost them face. Arrested, he slipped out of their grip and fled into Rangoon's famed Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Police right behind him had to stop and remove their boots before entering the Buddhist temple. For most of a day bootless police combed its labyrinth of passages and rest houses, guarded every exit. They paid little heed to a bent and evidently blind nun who slowly made her way down the main steps...
...knock summoned him to the door. Outside stood a beautiful Jewess with four armed Yemenite Jews. They threw Collins to the floor, slapped a chloroform-soaked rag against his face. The beautiful Jewess screamed, "Take him to the cemetery." The four men crammed him into a gunny sack, fled...
...Sudden. In 1933 she was hired by the Paris Opera-Comique, sang more than 250 Carmens and Mignons in seven years. When the Nazis took Paris, she fled to the U.S. For nearly two years New York considered her just another refugee. Then Toscanini signed her to sing Juliette in Berlioz's dramatic symphony Romeo et Juliette, and Stokowski chose her to sing the mezzo-soprano solo in the U.S. premiere of Prokofiev's cantata, Alexander Nevsky. Says Jennie: "All of a sudden everything came to me." After her Town Hall debut in 1943, the New York Herald...
...statement to the CRIMSON Saturday, Karpovich called for legal action by the victor nations which will allow Russian emigres who have not been found guilty of crimes against their own government to remain safely in the country to which they have fled. This action would probably have to be made by international agreement, he said, and might be a job for the United Nations...