Word: raid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neill joins a raid in which Bethlehem is snatched from its Saracen overlord. Returning in force, the Saracen prevails, but not until O'Neill has, with his bare hands, slain one of their champions. For this feat his life is spared by Kothra, the sheikess of the piece. First as prisoner, then as guest of Kothra and the Sheykh Haroun, her father, young O'Neill is torn between ancestral pride and desert love; also between his inherited Christianity, which the crusaders' irreligion spoils for him, and Islam, which his courteous captor-hosts gently urge...
...Reno, Nev., eleven Chinamen were arrested in a raid on an opium den. A shepherd dog, owned by one of the Chinamen, followed his master to jail, spent the night pacing between his master's cell and the confiscated opium pipes in the chief of police's office...
Nightclub. Seventy boys and 70 girls of the Medill High School, Chicago, attended a dinner dance at the Club Bagdad, were caught in a raid by prohibition agents, denied they had been drinking. Agents searched for evidence in vain...
Finally, the Empire's settled conviction that Stanley Baldwin always means well is as a pillar of potency to the members of his Cabinet. It enabled Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks to bring off in triumph the safe-blowing raid by Scotland Yard on Soviet trade headquarters in London (TIME, May 23), even though Sir William later admitted that the police did not find the "stolen State papers" which they were supposed to be seeking. At present, the Secretary of State for India, the Earl of Birkenhead, is drawing heavily on Mr. Baldwin's impeccable moral...
...Queen Victoria. A shy, sensitive man, he has been less in the public eye than any other Prince of the British Blood Royal. His career has been for the most part spent in the Army. At the age of 20 he served in Canada in suppressing the Fenian raid and later saw active service in Egypt. Rising by easy royal stages, he finally achieved the not unmerited rank of a Field Marshall...