Word: raided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would think that Chicago with its $100,000,000 annual liquor business, with its $30,000,000 paid for protection, would have enough profits for all the hoodlums. But each gang has its eye on a monopoly. They encroach upon one another's territory, raid one another's warehouses, capture one another's beer trucks, slaughter one another's men. There are four major gangs: one on the North Side (with a onetime assistant state's attorney as its adviser) ; two on the south side (one of which is led by "Polack Joe" Saltis...
...flurry saved the day for The Virgin Man, which was close to failure. After the "raid" Author-Manager William F. Dugan was obliged to seek a bigger theatre to accommodate the sympathetic public. Sex and The Captive had been running for eleven and five months, respectively. They now looked good for another season. One manager joked: "We'll fight it out on this line if it takes all Sumner...
...Teddy Oysters,' valiant old-school London cabby, the young Earl of Northesk led a 'hansom cab race' of nine other peers-about-town through Piccadilly to the very door of the Kit-Cat. . . . The police, unable to ignore the place after this escapade, prepared to raid it. Discovering in the nick of time that Edward of Wales was witkin, they postponed their raid until he had departed...
...when a college student is a part of a mob after a pep meeting, one cannot expect reason. Quite plainly there is one logical method of riot and raid prevention; eliminate the mob. The Michigan Daily
...England first established friendly relations with them in order to procure ports from which to raid the Spaniards, for her buccaneers. Oldman, after a visit to London, received a royal commission from Charles Stuart and ruled his people in nominal independence...