Word: hideout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bull of San Luis Potosí" was still at large. Capture of Cedillistas was announced daily, but Federal airplanes and troops combed the rugged Huasteca hills in vain for the Chief himself. At week's end, Strongman Cedillo was so bold that by short-wave radio from his hideout he gave an interview to the U. S. He claimed his revolt was spreading...
Said a timid voice inside: "Did you say you're the law?" It was the voice of a Mr. George Weinberg, who was living with Dixie and his doxie in their hideout. Mr. Dewey had been looking around for Mr. Weinberg...
Famed Literary Hoaxer Joan Lowell (Cradle of the Deep) started back to Manhattan after spending 20 months in a jungle hideout 30 miles from Santos, Brazil. When Miss Lowell sailed for Brazil she said she intended to become a Brazilian citizen. She built herself a brick house on a beach clearing backed by jungle, had herself appointed district nurse. One of her accomplishments was installing, as a sanitary measure, cement floors in the thatched-roof huts of the natives. In Rio de Janeiro, Hoaxmistress Lowell said she ministered so well to the natives they named her "Donna Joan, the Miracle...
Exiled at 15 because he knocked down a policeman while defending the Young Master in a brothel, Ivan got along fine in Siberia until he drove a corkscrew through the commandant's neck for making improper advances to him. At a fugitives' hideout he was petted by a beautiful Swedish girl named Hilda who lectured: "You are strange, you Russians. Your eyes are clear and clean, and your minds are clean though not clear, but your tongue is a pigsty of foulness." To which Ivan replied : "We are sons of pigs; a pig was my nurse." When...
...Jefferson Islands club, in Chesapeake Bay a few miles from Annapolis, is a onetime bootleggers' hideout which 90 wealthy men like Breckinridge Long, Winthrop W. Aldrich, Herbert Fleishhacker, Owen D. Young, August A. Busch Jr., Floyd B. Odium and Franklin Roosevelt remodeled as a bachelor club for shooting, fishing, escape from heat. Any club member can take the place over to give a party, giving advance notice so that members not invited will not be inconvenienced. At the three-day party staged by Member Roosevelt last week, Members Odium, Busch, Young, etc. were not present, for the gathering...