Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during a White air raid on Valencia that a Red anti-aircraft shell landed squarely on the quarterdeck of the British battleship Royal Oak, injuring four officers and a seaman. Not wishing to stir up pro-Valencian British Laborites, the British Admiralty made light of the whole affair. Declared an Admiralty official: "We might reproach the Loyalists for the awkward aiming of an anti-aircraft shell, but there is no question of malice. It was more or less...
...Grant, Forrest, Bragg, Longstreet and Polk appear, are marred by many a lampy smudge. The narrative opens after the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run to Northerners), once gets dangerously near Gone With the Wind territory, touches such historic happenings as the fall of Fort Donelson, Forrest's raid on Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga. Principal characters are the Allard family, aristocratic Kentuckians. Jim, the elder son, lamed by a riding accident, stayed home; but Ned went, was captured, finally released from a Yankee prison a broken man. George Rowan married one of the Allard girls, was enjoying...
...treaty with the hated English. It pleased Paine when Napoleon praised The Rights of Man, said to him, "A statue of gold ought to be erected to you in every city in the universe." But when he discovered the wily Frenchman merely wished him to lead an armed raid against the English, he turned on Napoleon his greatest barrage of invective...
...whether theatre patrons would ever get the $100,000 in prizes which have drawn them into Chicago theatres, there seemed no way of guessing until the 16 arrested theatre managers' cases are heard in court next week. Meanwhile, Corporation Counsel Barnet Hodes promised that police would continue to raid Chicago theatres that gave away prizes...
...Stein, but for different reasons, were the members of the New York County Lawyers' Association, who thought the program implied that poor people could get no relief at law because of the high cost of litigation. The Chicago Bar Association's Public Relations Committee Chairman Mitchell Dawson raid he thought that the program exploited "human misery for commercial purposes . . . encroaches on the practice of law . . . undermines confidence in the courts whose judges lend themselves to the scheme...