Word: raid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finally sees a new beauty opening for him in a new love. This time he loves " for character, which is the only true thing to love for." We leave him, a successful artist, engaged in a romantic passage at a music hall bar, in the course of an air raid which proposes to blow both participants effectively to pieces...
...Five hundred aircraft to fly over Rome during the parade. Among these will be the famous sernissima esquadrille (the first squadron under Gabriele d'Annunzio to raid Vienna during the War), with its original pilots and machines. One of the pilots is Aldo Finzi, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...
...recent raid by dry agents in Philadelphia some of the bottles bore [Secretary Andrew W.] Mellon's name. Think of it, a man who holds one of the most honored places in the Federal Government indulging in the illicit liquor traffic...
...Bound. The heroine's papa is murdered following a raid on a Florida Casino. To everyone but the audience the hero looks like the bad boy with the knife. He isn't. But the cast has a chance to wear a lot of expensively terrible clothes. It is one of those full dress suit movies where everything appears to have been hired for the occasion...
...York City Committee of the National Woman's Party passed a resolution of protest against unfair sex discrimination by the police in a recent raid on a dance hall in Manhattan. After the raid, the women dancers were arrested and imprisoned overnight " to protect their morals." The men were "shooed off " without having their names and addresses printed by the newspapers, as were the women's. Said Mrs. Marcus M. Marks: " The story was printed all over the country and then no more done about it. We don't understand how the papers could...