Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fabulously successful preacher, and David Marchbanks, a sensitive and pathetic boy of eighteen who "understands" her, And paradoxically it is the Reverend James Mavor Morell who wins out, because he is weaker in hid magnificent external strength than Marchbanks, who clings to his loneliness and misery as a retreat form a world where you have to decide how much to tip the cabby and haggle with greengrocers...
...German press no hint of the Führer's astounding new retreat has been printed, but by last week many authentic details of the Adlerhorst (Eagle's Nest) had seeped through to the U. S. Perched on the pinnacle of Kehlstein Mountain, the house itself is comparatively small, consists mainly of one large circular room lined, except for a spot near the fireplace, with large windows. There are also a guard room, an electrically operated kitchen, and a balcony lookout. It is 6,000 feet above sea level, commands superb views of Bavaria and old Austria...
...hrer's Eagle's Nest can be approached only by the heavily guarded road and tunnel. Not even all the Nazi ministers have been invited to this retreat. For M. François-Poncet...
Within five minutes Drs. Philip Work and James A. Stapleton diagnosed the strange case. John Bellinger was dissatisfied with his status as a dishwasher, they said, and he felt in his unconscious mind that he could not face the world, so he turned his back on it, attempted to retreat into a happy past. He had a simple case of hysteria, much milder than that of many sensitive persons who suddenly become blind or paralyzed when faced with an intolerable situation. Dr. Stapleton began to investigate Bellinger's "life activities from birth to the present," prepared to discuss Bellinger...
...didn't take an experienced trouper like Vag long to realize that he had strayed into the subterranean dressing rooms. Perturbed, he tried to retreat up the stairway, but a bevy of Arlington Amazons charged down on him and bore him along like a chip on some jabbering, be-furred tidal wave. Gadzooks, to be drowned in maidens and biushes! Right up to a door they pushed him. In self defense, Vag opened the door, slithered inside, and banged it behind...