Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heroine. Olga Tschechowa,* nee Knipper, born in the Russian Caucasus, fled in 1921 to Germany, where she became a cinema celebrity and ostensibly a great chum of Adolf Hitler. All during the war, said the Russians last week, she had really been a Russian spy, using her chauffeur to get through to Moscow the tiny, gold-covered notebooks in which she jotted the requests which Nazi bigwigs wanted her to put to Adolf. During the battle of Berlin, she hid in a bomb shelter, was rescued, in the best movie spy tradition, by a Red Army colonel...
...troops, Commander Agar explained, had to be sent home first. But his words were lost in the high-pitched storm. In peroration he assured them: "You have been reasonable and sincere-I thank you for your kindness.' " He sidled to a side door, and fled...
...Last month, in Chungking, Liu and 40 other cotton-garbed soldiers climbed, grinning, into a shiny American monster and flew off into the east. It was a jung yao (glorious) day for him. Shanghai was the most wondrous place he had ever seen. Above all, the Japs he had fled and followed for three long years were surrendering as meekly as meadow mice. It was like a dream...
...Wilderness. But while it lasted and whil the Age of Opulence covered the land with its fertilizing flood, Americans floated and liked it. The Booster and the Hustler appeared, to do battle with the Knocker. For there were knockers. Many of the long-haired critics had fled prosperity in favor of poverty in Paris. In London, the most important of them, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, found a name for the period's typical man: "Apeneck Sweeney." He called the age's greatest poem simply: The Waste Land...
...crudely cleffed manuscript. Some G.I.s at the bar asked to hear it again. The musician played it once more, and then told its history. A Jewish friend of his in Nice, hunted by the Gestapo, had written it three years before, had left it with a publisher, then fled to the Alpes-Maritimes to join a band of the Maquis. Its title reflected its composer's despair: C'est Fini (It Is Finished...