Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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your company at a Treasury Raid...
Parnell went back to Ireland to fight for his lost leadership, but there was too much against him. He made Edmund Leamy editor of his Dublin paper, United Ireland, had to raid its offices twice in 24 hours to recapture it from an anti-Parnellite force. The Catholic Church turned almost solidly against him. Shillalah-bearing hecklers turned his meetings into free-for-alls by shouting "Tim Healy's Battle Cry"-"Three Cheers for Kitty O'Shea!" Only the faithful few still followed their lost leader, but when he died, worn out by his hopeless fight...
Engraved "invites" have been sent nationwide by the Princeton front office. They read: "The national Council of the Veterans of Future Wars requests the pleasure of your company at a Treasury Raid and Bonus disbursement on Monday, the fifteenth of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-six at three o'clock, in the City of Washington. Dancing in the streets from four until six. R.S.V.P. Formal...
...Harvard post will stage their raid in Cambridge...
...time Smuts joined the fighting the Boers knew their goose was cooked but meant to burn it to a crisp before they quit. With famed Guerrillas Botha, de Wet, de la Rey, they raided in mounted commandos, depending on prisoners for rifles, ammunition, clothes, often literally fighting to eat. The British took to burning farms, interning the women and children in concentration camps (20,000 of them died there). When the Boers took prisoners they swapped rags for uniforms, then turned the soldiers-loose. With a commando of 360 Smuts set out to invade the Cape, still hoping the Boers...