Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May Capone stopped off between trains at Philadelphia as he was returning from a "business meeting" at Atlantic City where he had helped arrange a peace pact for Chicago's liquor gangs. Outside a cinema theatre he was arrested for carrying a revolver. Immediately he pleaded guilty, accepted a...
Lord Jeff, 1922 edition, found himself in considerable not water when he tried to solve the problem of the younger generation by setting fire to the Freshmen. By a ruling of the faculty he was deprived of all cuts for the rest of the year and told in no uncertain...
In humble ecstasy the founder-proprietor of L'Osservatore, aristocratic Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, knelt on his editorial doorstep as the Pontiff departed. Much like the Christian Science Monitor in format is the papal paper except that it carries no advertisements or cooking recipes, displays the triple tiara of...
Lincoln, said one of his friends, "had a strong if not terrible passion for women." Nevertheless, he made a loveless marriage with Mary Todd, and was in such a nervous panic on his wedding day that he took refuge in the Illinois Legislature. Later, however, she got her man, for...
This cynic admired one man: Napoleon. In the disastrous campaign against Russia, Henri followed him, this time as a member of the Emperor's staff. With the abdication of Napoleon, Henri took refuge in Italy, turned to literature. His first book, under the pseudonym Louis Alexandre Cesar Bombet, was...