Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came out of my long retreat ... to help the Canadian people get rid of a certain class and of attempts at blackmailing public men, Governments and Parliaments in order to secure certain sordid ends . . . that sordid dominion of this group in Quebec which has been exercised by Lord Atholstan and the Montreal Star for 25 years...
...Charles XII, boy king of Sweden, beats Peter on the battlefield. In the retreat, a Russian general takes a girl, Katharina, whom later he gives to Peter. Peter likes her. He sends the Tsarina to a nunnery...
Tucked away behind the mountains of Lombardy, the tiny Lago d'Iseo, famed retreat of Italian notables, appears to the eye of passing aviators like a single glistening twisted tear upon the scarred visage of a giant. Last week a salute of 21 battleship guns boomed across this diminutive strip of water. Tourists afloat in ornamental near-gondolas, all but toppled overboard in fright. Shading their eyes and looking about for a super-dreadnaught which was nowhere to be seen, they marveled...
...days passed, thousands of mourners arrived in motor cars and on foot, giving silent testimony to how completely the onetime Princess Alexandra of Denmark had won the hearts of her English subjects. Meanwhile a light and powdery snow sifted down upon the Sandringham estates, famed country retreat of Edward VII and Alexandra. At length the same gun carriage which had served King Edward on his last earthly journey rumbled ominously to Sandringham Church and awaited the termination of the preliminary service...
...graduates may snort at this addition to Harvard Square diversions, and point out that the subway and Boston were plenty good enough for them, but it can be urged in defense that their undergraduate lives were not spent in a constant retreat from automobiles. They needed no relaxation. One feels, especially after the daily, narrow escape, that Harvard Square seems to be getting rather out of bend anyway...