Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exactly 10 p. m. the World's third most extensive city-suddenly became the World's darkest. Over 150 battle planes- barred to Germany by the now scrapped Versailles treaty-thundered aloft over Berlin in a night air raid followed by another at dawn. Some dropped cannon cracker bombs. To make things more realistic Air Minister Goring had a section of Berlin subjected to real tear gas. Squads of Nazis dashed about telling teary citizens not to become panicky, assuring them "You will soon be quite all right." To make things still more realistic fake wounded soon appeared...
...pajamas and the woman is always blonde. Discontented New York wives shrink from the hoary tale, but the state law which permits divorce only on grounds of adultery leaves them no alternative. Chief sufferers are referees in divorce proceedings, forced to hear over & over the same old story of raid, surprised husband, pajama-clad blonde. Last week in Manhattan a referee rebelled. His victim was a woman famed in the U. S. and Europe for her different parties, indifferent singing...
...Ford Hall Players at The Barn at 36 Joy Street, is a biting satire on the "double standard" as it exists in the German middle class. The play deals with a Society for the Suppression of Vice, all of whose members find their reputations threatened when the police raid the disorderly house kept by Madame Ninon de Hautville, a "lady of leisure," whose establishment is recommended by the most fashionable gentlemen...
...vain did the sub-committee moderates plead against a further "raid on the Treasury." In vain did American Veterans Association, conservative intramural organization, publish spreads in Miami newspapers warning against "gratuity demands from politically-minded, self-seeking minorities." Not only did the resolution come out of committee for "cash payment at face value," but for "cancellation of interest accrued," and refunding of interest already paid on adjusted service certificates...
Another reason given for the change was the "Handsome Dan Kidnapping Scandal" of last Winter. The transfer is question found it impossible to tolerate the cruelty to a dumb animal which was exhibited at that childish raid on the defenseless Eli mascot...