Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome, he heard of the bombardment of Rheims, hastened home to be with his endangered parishioners. Forbidden to entrain from Paris for Rheims, he motored there, slept in a cellar, tended the wounded, held Mass wherever he could, sometimes underground, remained until forced by military authority to retreat from the city in April 1918. In 1927 he consecrated the rebuilding Cathedral (not yet completed). To announce his death, the Cathedral's chimes tolled the number of his years...
...Secretary of War Hurley, suffering recurrence of an old stomach ailment, was taking a two-week rest at the President's summer retreat on the Rapidan...
...terms of gift the chateau and its 1,000 acres are created a "perpetual retreat" at the disposal of professors of the Sorbonne. At scholarly ease in the magnificent palace, the professors will enjoy among other things the chief product ot the village of Richelieu, "diamonds of the soil," truffles...
...seems to the public after what happened to Roister, Freshman and a half-dozen others. And, in addition to risky radios, Grigsby-Grunow has decided to manufacture refrigerators, a field where General Motors, General Electric and Kelvinator present formidable competition. In 1928 General Asphalt Co. beat a disorderly retreat from this field...
...Holy City in the Santa Cruz Mountains is for men only. Its inhabitants wear long hair, sell barbecued pork and gasoline to travelers, broadcast from their own radio station, post signs reminding the countryside of the likelihood of Death. Their hillside retreat includes a dance hall from which feminine shouting frequently echoes down the mountains...