Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime Fugitive Premier Francisco Largo Caballero's Radical Cabinet, from their refuge in Valencia, rushed food and ammunition back to their Madrid comrades by railroad, for a successful sally by the Red militia had resulted in effective communications being reopened between Madrid and the seacoast. As 40 new Red...
Once, caught in a fierce storm, Audubon took refuge in a trapper's cabin which became so flooded that he had to hold his arms over his head to protect his portfolio. In the midst of his discomfort the storm ended, and he suddenly heard a wood thrush, "a...
The figure on men turned down for this fall shows an increase of 17 over last year. When there were 257 who had to be refused. Many of these were students who had to have cheap rooms, and, when none were available, decided to live at home. Others took refuge...
When Franklin Roosevelt refused to take any public notice of his troublesome son's troubles, Publisher Tichenor commenced to heckle him by telegraph, demand that he break "the unusual silence in which you have taken refuge."
There is a gratifying amount of plain common sense in these clippings, the sort to which one turns as a refuge from the partisan gas-clouds that filled the air at the time they were written, and fill it now more than ever. To the cry of inflation, he retorts...