Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crippled legs a long climb. Mrs. Roosevelt said that her chief worry was that, too busy to exercise, he would get fat and give the legs that much more to carry. As soon as his very close victory (25,000 plurality) was assured, he set out for his retreat at Warm Springs, Ga., to exercise as much as possible before inauguration...
...army of purple-clad Crusaders. And so, not feeling up to playing the part of a Saracen even for the protection of his lares and penates, he has fled for the duration of the struggle to parts unknown-unknown, that is, to anyone that would intrude on his retreat...
Boodle's Club, anciently founded in 1762 (thus antedating the hoary Carlton by 70 years) was a typical retreat, where robust clubmen discussed over whiskey and Schweppe's, last week, the climax of the famed "Taxicab Case" of Miss Helen Adele...
...said: "The purpose of the tariff is not to balance the books of business corporations, but to safeguard the family budget. ... It has become the funda¬mental safeguard of the American work¬man and the American farmer . . . A retreat to the Underwood tariff scheduless on farm produce would ruin millions of our farmers todayo...
...from her during that time. I am of course much interested to know whether not only myself but many, many others have been imposed upon by a poseur or whether there is some explanation, which I think must be the case. She has told us the complete story, the retreat of the White Army, the escape from the Crimea, the hiding of her jewels in her young child's rag doll, of the sinking of the Lucullus, which she said she was not aboard at the time, of General Wrangel's efforts and hers to hold together...