Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete "out" from the Prohibition controversy. As "proof" of this fabulous theory, the theorists pointed to the speed with which Attorney General Mitchell sent the case to the Supreme Court. Henri Mouquin, 93, famed oldtime Manhattan wine merchant and restaurateur, was "electrified" by the decision, wired from his Virginia retreat to his sons to prepare to get back into business...
...buying and selling, and automobile accidents can most conveniently be handled by applying to Garnet Hall adjacent to the Square. A Bureau such as this is another indication of the place of the University in modern life as compared to a past conception of the University as an academic retreat from life...
...business man and a gardener, an international financier and an English squire. He enjoys the country life of his home ["Wall Hall''] at Watford with an affection as deep as any of his English ancestors felt for theirs. What his Hertfordshire retreat meant to him is an illustration of the abiding value of the English countryside as an unequalled recreative force...
Near Brimfield, Mass., Clifford A. Palmer, 45, son of a well-to-do New Haven, Conn., businessman, lived in a forest retreat with 20 half-wild dogs. He was found dying of starvation, surrounded by plenty of provisions which he saved for his dogs...
Historic is Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, with one foot in Tennessee and one in Georgia. Here the Union soldiers tumbled the greycoats into retreat in the Battle Above the Clouds; here, last year, shrewd Garnet Carter, owner of Fairyland Club, built the first Tom Thumb golf course, complicating an ordinary 18-hole putting course with ingenious hazards. Last week to Fairyland went putters from many corners of the U. S. to roll balls through hollows, to carom them from banks, down tunnels, over dishpan water hazards and around basket-size sand-traps in the first national Tom Thumb championship...