Word: hideaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week reality caught up with Charles Augustus Lindbergh. From his hideaway on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., he offered his services to the Army Air Corps from which he resigned last April, after Frank lin Roosevelt had pegged him as a new-day "Copperhead." At his age (40 next month), Lindbergh probably could not get a job as a combat flyer. If he were given a commission-for which, as a new applicant, he would have to wait his turn-he could serve his country usefully as a specialist in aviation. He knows a lot more about that subject...
...whereabouts of the library cache were not revealed, however. The hideaway depicted as amply large for the books which are to be transported there in case of emergency. He pointed out that in the chaos existing during a bombing or an invasion, it would be easy for looters to make away with many of the priceless treasures if everybody knew where they were located...
...bank account to pay his income taxes. Eleanor Roosevelt is already trying to liquidate some of her assets. At her press conference this week Mrs. Roosevelt announced that both her Manhattan town houses (Nos. 47 and 49 East 65th Street) are for sale. She has also given up her hideaway apartment in Greenwich Village...
...Eleanor Roosevelt gave up her small hideaway apartment in Greenwich Village, moved her stuff to the family mansion uptown to save rent and air the mansion occasionally.....Vichy announced that the $2,000,000 art collection confiscated from fugitive Maurice de Rothschild would be auctioned for the national relief fund. ....The widow of Auto Pioneer John F. Dodge ordered the $3,000,000, 110-room, untenanted Dodge castle in suburban Detroit torn down so that the land could be sold....Sculptor Heinz Warneke's two 31-ton stone eagles, brief ornaments of Washington's Social Security Building till...
...Captain populates his island with all kinds of high-toned people, whom he transports to his hideaway at "Latitude Zero" (i.e., somewhere on the Equator) in a submarine. To rescue them he has brushes with huge man-eating crabs and trees, griffons and an evil fellow called Malic, who runs a rocket ship...