Word: raid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Civil War caused an upheaval at West Point. Divergent views and opinions from all parts of our country were expressed and strongly supported by members of the Corps. The intense feeling aroused by John Brown's raid resulted in a number of serious fights, and, although the authorities did not relax the customary discipline, cadets agitated by State feeling cared little for punishment or demerits received,. Seceding Southern States took with them their sons who, once loyal Unionists were soon to tear at the throats of their Northern Classmates. The names of Grant, Jackson, Stuart, and Lee will live long...
...ingratiating Baptist named Frank Flowers who voted for Al Smith and has conservative social views. His type and standing were expected to help the "atheistic" labor radicals with the fundamentalist jury. Further help to the defendants, who were pleading they shot in self-defense when Sheriff Aderholt came to "raid" their headquarters, seemed to lie in recent episodes of the textile war- unionists flogged, one woman murdered, the Marion slaughter. To meet these changed aspects of the case, the State's prosecutors adopted quick new tactics. They dropped all charges against nine defendants, including the three women involved...
...Toward the end of the War, still studying Greek, he meets Anna, a trolley conductorette, and proves his love by taking her some of Germany's scarce meat from his mother's cupboard. Anna loves him in return, promises to reveal the mystery. But after an air raid a report is sent: "Direct hit. We've covered up all that's left...
These words had hardly rebounded from the Heaviside Layer when Jouette Shouse, Quarter-Master-General of the Democratic Army, seized the microphone and cried: "We have heard from self-appointed in- terpreters, who continue to assert that Mr. Hoover will not stand for a wholesale tariff raid. But what sort of chief executive is it who would permit his own Congress to make a larcenous hash of its whole session...
...housekeeper so that while apparently furthering her idealistic efforts to "go straight," he can investigate her also for clues to a crime which he suspects her of having committed. Al Draper decoys both of them eventually to his roulette and poker establishment from which, by means of a raid, they are hustled to the office of the district attorney. Here, in a prolonged questioning Mazie abuses the interlocutor and the assembled company with acid witticisms. After her snarlings are concluded, the audience is pleased to discover that both girls, though fairly bad, are innocent of a murder whose author, most...