Word: raid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...especially the Negroes, the 92 Division, which, after more than a month in the trenches, cannot yet make a raid. It failed again on one today. Poor Negroes! They are hopelessly inferior...
Thus far, conjecture has mostly centered about Jesse L. Livermore, veteran of many a successful "bear raid." Mr. Livermore is in Florida, and according to report, he has been keeping the Chicago wires of brokerage houses hot with his selling orders. Financial editors are also wondering just what Arthur Cutten, erstwhile successful "bull" operator in grain, has been doing recently- whether he has also been quietly unloading his "long" line of staple cereals, or calmly accepting a 20% drop in their value...
...incorruptible member of the Labor Party (Philip Snowden), to do him justice, always played the game with his chief. Even when Mr. MacDonald was prepared to raid the treasury for the most unmitigated scoundrels who ever disgraced civilization, Mr. Snowden bowed his head, and if he cursed at all, he cursed under his breath...
...anxious to see you because the country is passing through a panic crisis which must be combatted. The falsest reports are circulating. Yesterday it was a raid at Amiens, where no raids were made. Today it is a story of stolen machine guns at Longuyon, equally untrue. What is serious is that this neurosis is spreading daily. Foreigners are growing anxious...
Then there was a raid on the Transvaal properties by foreign gold interests out to beat the Dutch control, led by Sir Leander S. Jameson, the administrator of Rhodesia, associate of Rhodes in this and other enterprises. As the biggest foreign mine-owner in the Transvaal, Rhodes was implicated. As Premier of the neighboring colony, he was deeply embarrassed, some said disgraced. With fine candor he accepted his responsibility for what had happened, resigned his office, set off for Rhodesia, an undeveloped portion of Africa up country, where he labored before his health broke and he went back to Cape...