Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slightly annoyed by veiled criticism, President Hoover last week announced his intention of donating his camp in Virginia to the U. S. as a permanent presidential retreat. He detailed the contributions to its construction: 1) from Virginia, roads to the camp; 2) from the Marine Corps, "Labor in erecting cabins and tents, in providing water supply, cutting brush;" 3 ) from the telephone and electric light companies, "connections without charge;" 4) from local residents, "labor on fine trails;" 5) from the U. S. Army engineers, road work "as one of its summer exercises:" ]6) from himself, 164 acres of land...
...wilderness of the Everglades. Solicitous of their welfare, the U. S. began an attempt to round them up out of the swamps where they have remained to this good day. A 23,542-acre reservation in Florida was waiting for them if only they would come out of their retreat and live...
...wanted Dorothy, golden-haired dancing daughter of Mr. Stone, to proceed immediately to Manhattan to play the lead in Show Girl. Where was Dorothy? On Will Rogers' ranch outside Hollywood, said her father. "Call her," snapped Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that Will Rogers had no telephone in his breezy retreat. "Fly to her," pleaded Mr. Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that he had risked no flying since his nearly fatal air accident last fall. "Motor," gasped Mr. Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said he would...
...Something moves under the sheet. A jagged hole in it appears. Boo-oom!?pat-pat-pat! The ground shakes. Gas. Shrieks. Four years of this. Escape: death, a wound, a breakdown, intoxication, an occasional stolen feast. In 1918 comes disintegration, lack of coordination between common soldier and superior, retreat, final defeat...
...make the word seem still more useful, the Dutch also have kijkcr mean opera-glass or telescope and, if the Dutch had speakeasies (which they haven't and thank goodness have no need of) the peephole in the entrance door would be called, like Mr. Rockefeller's retreat, a ''kijkuit." EMILE W. VOUTE...