Word: flee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anxious to get an appointment to Rome than to retain his wife's love. She is immensely attracted to her husband's young attache, who remarks, while sprawling on a divan: "At times I am completely at the mercy of my passions." But when she offers to flee with him to some bourne of quiet, she learns again that worldly ambition can conquer desire. Then she accepts the proposition of the urbane Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs who. presumably, is able to make the sacrifices necessary for love without abandoning his prestige...
...financial review in the U. S. would have dared to close the year 1929 with a full-page cartoon showing the gigantic "Bears" of business depression advancing down a street of impressive financial buildings, while ahead of them with fear-blanched faces flee four men representing Germany, Great Britain, the U. S., and France...