Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warning sirens screamed and the dull throb of German Zeppelin motors advanced through the grey-black fog. Determined to be better prepared to protect the civilian population in the event of another war, the House of Commons last week took up for its third and final reading the Air-Raid Precautions Bill...
...Queer feeling Virginia had when I phoned her during an air raid and announced that I was at St. Marie's hospital. I had visited there to contact and help to evacuate two Catholic sisters. They left here on the President Hoover. I took them to the Customs Jetty. Their departure was heralded by a Chinese plane and Japanese antiaircraft fire. Virginia today received a phone call from one of the remaining American sisters who stated that the evacuees had left for the States from Manila on the President Hoover which you know was bombed. One of the sisters...
...second night, with Society's annual mass raid over for the year, Richard Strauss' Rosenkavalier, first of the forthcoming three-opera "Strauss cycle," provided Soprano Lotte Lehmann with one of her most famous and mellowest roles, that of the absent Field Marshal's wife. On the third night debuts began...
Deadly gas fumes enveloped the Cambridge Trust Co. at five o'clock yesterday, as frenzied workmen buzzed around a gaping cavity in Dunster Street. Onsmellers cried "foul play", while soda jerkers from Huyler's rushed off for gas masks, fearing a German air raid...
...Paris police had confided to the press that their chief Royalist plot-suspect, Eugène Deloncle, was apparently in Rome, having "fled to the Fascist Capital," they observed him strolling across a Paris square, arrested him forthwith. A flying squad of detectives dashed from Marseille 120 miles to raid, at Cannes, the jewelry shop kept by a brother of M. Deloncle, discovered and seized three sabres. Papers seized by the police, who have been calling their suspects collectively Les Cagoulards ("The Hooded Men"), mentioned a Comité Secret d'Action Révolutionnaire or C.S.A.R. Promptly Les Cagoulards...