Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does not make clear, but the trip involves disguising himself as a monk, a corpse, a laborer. By the time Pierre reaches France the Germans are advancing. He joins the army, deserts again when near his home, is arrested, recognized by a brother officer, released, swept up in the retreat, reaches Renée just ahead of the German troops. He finds Armand mad, his wife an old woman. Piling his family into a passing wagonload of corpses, he carts them to safety, only to have Renée and Armand killed by a chance shell far behind the lines...
...House of Commons: Swayed by Sunday's jeers, the Cabinet on Monday are in full retreat from their original position of attempting to rush His Majesty off the British Throne. The Prime Minister makes an astonishing statement that his previous announcement of the Cabinet's absolute refusal to assist in arranging a morganatic marriage had no reference to the King's ever having been officially advised by the Cabinet to do or refrain from doing anything. "All my conversations with His Majesty," says Mr. Baldwin, "have been strictly personal and informal. . . . These matters were not raised first...
...tremendous vocabulary was often no help in describing uncongenial modern things. Shaw would suggest the right word, whereupon Morris would gasp with relief. Morris was infuriated with hecklers at debates, while Shaw courted them, so that Shaw would be put forward to demolish foolish questioners while Morris would retreat to the background, pulling his mustache and growling, "Damfool! Damfool!" Such assistance made Shaw feel as though he had given "a penny to a millionaire who has bought a newspaper and found his pockets empty." Spending much time in Morris' home, where the only social drawbacks were Shaw...
...best-selling British Agent, Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart told of the high-pressure diplomatic and love affairs that marked his days in the British Embassy in revolutionary Russia. In its sequel, Retreat From Glory, he described his post-War disillusionment, a long-drawn-out affair involving debts and dissipations in the Balkans, that left him looking dolefully on the modern world and suffering from an understandable fatigue. Readers of those two books who have come to expect from Bruce Lockhart well-bred accounts of international intrigue are likely to be disappointed with Return to Malaya. It is a record...
...they would like to start playing again if he didn't want the field any more. "Yes", said the baton waver. As the referee approached for the fifth round the music ended in a triumphant and defiant thunder of drums, and the Band with proud smiles, retired in orderly retreat...