Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monoxide; in Minneapolis. Died. Ray Austin Graham, 45, treasurer of Graham-Paige Motors Corp., youngest of the three Graham brothers who acquired Paige Motor Co. in 1927; by drowning himself; in Chatham, Ont. His brother, Robert Cabel Graham, and a priest were taking him to the Loyola House of Retreat in Morristown, N. J. after sanitarium treatment for a nervous breakdown. He eluded them, leaped into McGregor Creek. Died. George Shinault, Washington policeman who killed William Hushka in the Bonus army riot (TIME, Aug. 8); of a bullet wound inflicted while breaking up a street fight; in Washington...
...course of his monkish aspirations Kaoru meets venerable Prince Hachi, who lives in retreat on his country estate. There they study heavenly philosophy together until the tinkling of a lute and a 13-stringed zithern behind the paper doors apprises Kaoru that there are daughters in the house. From that moment his elaborate ceremonial courtship, in which every little movement has a meaning of its own, begins. But it is only long after the death of Prince Hachi. who consigns his daughters to Kaoru's guardianship, that he even sees the girls...
Spectators and newsmen shrank back in fear of what might happen if these angry thousands turned violent. The plaza remained uncleared. Waters was brought out and exhibited to his followers. He surlily refused to command them to retreat. Dangerous tension was broken when a buxom, yellow-haired woman leaped to the stand. She was Marotta Arsonis, a New York trained nurse who had befriended the B. E. F. Seizing a megaphone, she yelled: "Be calm, men! Be calm! Let's sing." She tuned up with "America...
...monopoly and prestige of the Fox family name." She said that when her husband incorporated Aaron Fox Film Corp., he "incurred the severe displeasure and disdain" of Brother William, who, with the connivance of a Manhattan alienist, had Brother Aaron whisked away to a sanatorium, the Hartford (Conn.) Retreat. There Brother Aaron still remains, she said, making no effort to get out for fear of further persecution from Brother William. Mrs. Aaron Fox added that Brother William had taken over Brother Aaron's affairs, had forced her children (aged 4 & 6) "to a point where they have no choice between...
...Thirds Rule, The second, and more important, fight on the program fizzled out when Governor Roosevelt, dangling on a telephone in Albany, beat a retreat which threatened to cost him the nomination...