Word: refugee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The day the old runaway was to be deported, Greek detectives called at his apartment, but Samuel Insull was not there. Immediately a storm of rumors broke. From the Cabinet of Premier Tsaldaris to the couscous merchants on the sidewalks every Athenian had a story of his own. Samuel Insull...
Though no beaver had been seen in Pennsylvania since 1900, the State legislature in 1903 declared a permanent closed season. Twelve years later a pair of beavers were brought from Wisconsin, turned loose in a State game refuge. At intervals in the next nine years Pennsylvania's Game Commission...
The challenge was issued at Harvard, where Professor Salvemini teaches Italian literature. He is one of a fairly numerous class of foreign scholars who have been cast out from their own country by the rise of dictatorship and have found a refuge in American universities and colleges. This will confirm...
Before the War a Jewish tailor is shown at his wedding, his friends crying Mazeltov ("Good luck"). A Frenchman picks up a pretty girl, takes her to a shooting gallery. A Briton awaits the birth of his son. A Negro tap-dances in a Paris music hall. A German cabinetmaker...
Convicts left behind spotted the handiwork of Clyde Barrow, notorious outlaw-at-large, said he fired the machine gun, suspected the horn was honked by his woman, gun-toting, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker. Next day posses bagged only one flown jailbird. Convict J. B. French, panting a few minutes ahead...