Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in Depression, evincing a nicer regard for the feelings of their fellow citizens than their niece Barbara Hutton, Mr. & Mrs. E. F. Hutton cut down on their more spectacular extravagances. Not mentioned so frequently in Sunday supplements were their Long Island estate, their Adirondack retreat, their 16,000-acre preserve in South Carolina, their Manhattan penthouse or their Palm Beach home. Mr. Hutton, who maintained the Hussar, world's biggest sailing yacht, came out strongly for the commissioning of laid-up yachts as a means of increasing employment. His wife, broadening her philanthropies to include the Marjorie Post Hutton...
...through." Scare heads in London papers suggested that, for all anybody knew, tons of Fascist bombs might at any minute blow up Malta. As George V read the papers he grew more & more excited. He, too, was not in London but 470 miles away at the royal Scottish summer retreat, Balmoral. Finally His Majesty could stand it no longer, took the most unusual step of causing it to be publicly made known that he had cabled Mr. Baldwin an expression of the Sovereign's readiness at a moment's notice to rush back to his Capital...
Doggedly Eden & Laval kept on asking if Mussolini would not retreat from his position of demanding Ethiopia for Italy, agree to formation of a joint Italo-Anglo-Franco Exploitation Company "for opening up Ethiopia," and promise to keep out of that part of Ethiopia in which Britain has keenest interest, Lake Tana which feeds the Blue Nile. This proposition they made conditional on the unlikely fluke that it would be accepted by both the Emperor of Ethiopia and the League of Nations. It must also be accompanied, stipulated Captain Eden and Premier Laval, by a declaration that "the independence...
...buglers who sounded the Adowa retreat that was never heard was found in London last week in the person of Francis Pozzoli, then a young corporal, now a prosperous wholesale grocer...
...would do me good to have another smack at the creeping devils," said he. "The worst of it came during the retreat. Tired and thirsty, we were overtaken by mounted tribesmen who rode among us, cutting down thousands. I escaped by crawling under a heap of dead bodies. Hardly a wounded man on the battlefield escaped mutilation...