Word: raider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ernst A. Lehmann, 42, Assistant Director of the Zeppelin works and easily Dr. Ecke-ner's peer in airship navigation. He was a naval architect on the late Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's staff and was operating a Zeppelin, the Sachsen, when the War broke out. Perforce he became a raider, bombed Antwerp once, London twice. In his book The Zeppelins, he reports, without boast or apology, that he could have destroyed London were that the German desire. He invented the device of concealing dirigible raiders by lowering a pilot in a steel basket on 1,000 feet or more...
...liquor was found on the Harris farm. Raider Thomason had no search warrant to look...
Died. Thomas Henry ("Old Tom") Tibbles, 87, famed Civil War fighter, circuit rider and onetime (1904) candidate for the vice presidency of the U. S.; at Omaha, Neb. Hanged before he was 16 by members of Raider Quantrill's band, he was cut down by friends, lived to fight with John Brown, to edit the Omaha World-Herald, to marry three wives, one of them Princess Bright Eyes, original of Longfellow's Minnehaha...
...Raider Emden. Under the auspices of the German Admiralty, the World War exploits of the famed German cruiser, Emden, have been put into a breath-taking film. It shows how the Emden swooped down upon and sank two dozen British ships in southern seas, before the Sydney put her beneath the waves off Cocos Island. It contains no propaganda...
Within the space of four days Lieutenant Commander Edward Ellsberg, the expert on naval salvage, and Count Felix von Luckner, the German sea-raider, will speak at the Union, it was announced last night. Tomorrow Lieutenant Commander Ellsberg will relate his experiences; and on Tuesday Count Luckner will tell about his adventures...