Word: hideaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple of Dartmouth wags had a bright idea Friday. They were going to kidnap one Jawaharlal Nehru while he was visiting Harvard, and spirit him off to a suburban hideaway. Then, on Saturday, they planned to introduce him to an admiring Stadium throng as Prime Minister of the (Dartmouth) Indians...
...from a piece of shrapnel in his liver. Afterwards, Frankie took to the needle because it was easier than coping with life. When Frankie killed Louie Fomorowski, who sold him the stuff, the cops broke Sparrow down and made him squeal. They caught up with Frankie in his flophouse hideaway, broke in the door, and found the man with the golden arm dead. Frankie had hanged himself...
Hiding was his own idea, Paul Makushak said: he had just not liked the way the world was going. Certainly no one should blame his mother. The police, who get used to strange things, looked hard at the small hideaway and sniffed. They were not sure Makushak had been living there for a decade, but someone had been living there messily for a long time...
...night Reggie called for Mrs. Amelia Waldron in a curtained car and drove her to a hideaway on the city's outskirts. There was Frankie. He told his stepmother excitedly: "I'm going to Russia. You'll hear from me." That was the last Amelia ever saw of him. She did hear from him by way of an occasional postcard from Europe. Some years later a Los Angeles lawyer told her to stop around at his office, there confided to her that Reggie was happy, that Timothy was learning to speak Russian, and that Frankie was enrolled...
...first Mrs. H. read every message. But after three days, she changed her mind; some letters were spiteful and upsetting. By week's end, Mrs. H. had taken refuge in a hideaway-and Reporter Patrick had moved into a friend's apartment, to get some peace from the telephone...