Word: flees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hindrance. The delicate nerve must be spliced to give the return of welcome sensation to palsied arm. He sews the viscera so truly that they become watertight. He mends the splintered bone and repairs the lacerated flesh while holding to the skirts of the frightened spirit, lest it should flee in flight. "When a surgical operation is described as beautiful, it seems incongruous and uncanny to the layman. To one who can appreciate its beauties it is really the acme of artistic perfection. A resection of the stomach by a master like Mayo, widely excising the diseased part, restoring continuity...
Motoring in Cannes, France, with her 2-year-old son Michael John was beauteous Atalanta Arlen (onetime Countess Atalanta Mercati), wife of Novelist Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian). A motorcyclist rammed into the rear of her automobile, was instantly killed. Forced to flee by a mob of Frenchwomen who cursed and threatened her, she was rescued by her husband and a British vice consul...
...your Roman mind. You wonder how we shall ever get along. Well, I sometimes wonder myself. But our proposition does show that Protestant women have learned the beauty of Catholic sisters' life, and that nuns are actuated by a positive, constructive ideal, not by mere longings to flee the world...
...next year. His name is popular in Cuba because his father, also Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, headed a brief revolutionary regime in 1868 (30 years before the U. S. helped Cuba to win independence from Spain) and has been called "the Cuban George Washington." His family were forced to flee Cuba after the revolt and Dr. Cespedes was born in New York just 62 years ago last week. Popular in Washington from 1914 to 1922 as Minister of Cuba, he knew Franklin Delano Roosevelt well as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In 1925 during President Machado's first...
...SOFT SPOT-A. S. M. Hutchinson -Little, Brown ($2.50). Twelve years ago the huge success of the novel If Winter Comes caused its shy author, Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson, to flee precipitately from England to the Balearic Islands. The success of Author Hutchinson's latest tome, The Soft-Spot, a painfully mannered and prolix dissection of an Englishman with a talent for sponging, should cause him no such embarrassment whatever. Stephen Wain developed the habit of living off his half-brother Maxwell, a wealthy explorer, when they shared diggings in Bayswater, where Stephen studied architecture. Later, as a practicing...