Word: hideaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer was made in the best tradition of royal intrigue. Through the Neapolitan night the Prince's own car whisked A. P. Correspondent Dick Massock to a royal hideaway. During a half-hour "audience" Umberto said: "The King is old [74] and ready to retire. He has had a full life." Massock was to tell the world, and did, that Umberto was ready to take over his father's duties, become the King's lieutenant. At one point Massock observed: "You talk as though you expect to be king some day." Solemnly replied Umberto: "Yes, that...
...Mexico's Big Three mural-ists,* revealed that he is about to visit the U.S. on the last lap of an "Art for Victory" tour of the American continents. Muralist Siqueiros (pronounced See Kay-ros), who was arrested for leading an armed attack on the Mexico City hideaway of the late Leon Trotsky which resulted in the kidnapping murder of the late Sheldon Harte, Trotsky's U.S. secretary, will visit Manhattan to do a massive outdoor mural, probably in Times Square. The mural will be painted by 15 Latin American artists under Siqueiros' direction. The subject...
...greatest war was the U.S. in for a siege of bitter feuding between President and Congress? It might be. Much depended on what was going on in the mind of Franklin Roosevelt as, day after day, he remained secluded from press and public in his military-secret hideaway...
...came running from the pond in the yard shouting: "Daddy, the fish are cooking." How Now, Old Mole? In London, a married woman was jailed for helping conceal her lover, a French deserter. She had hidden him for 16 months under her floor, in an 11-by-3 ft. hideaway. He was nabbed when he popped out, suspecting that three other men were around the house...
...Japs also need an intermediate anchorage where small vessels-the craft of infiltration by sea-can pause before a night sneak to Guadal. Last week U.S. planes hunted down a new Jap hideaway in the New Georgia group. Wickham Anchorage lies hidden behind a long, narrow, palmy, hook-shaped island. It is only 120 miles from the main Jap positions on Guadal. Though the approaches are tricky, good-sized vessels can hide there. Last week a group of Jap cargo ships did. U.S. dive-bombers found them and in two attacks sank four. They also found quite a few landing...