Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortunately they are so incompetent that they make near beer in spite of themselves; when arrested, they are immediately set free. By acquiring an experienced braumeister, they are soon in dangerous rivalry with racketeers. They cap their misdemeanors by getting a whole town so sodden that when federal agents raid the brewery again, no evidence is left. What! No Beer? is certainly an incentive to lawlessness but it can be considered a triumph of comic invention only by the most ardent Keaton & Durante enthusiasts...
Early last September, filibustering Peruvians staged a private raid, seized Leticia. expelled the town's Colombian officials and called on all Peru to applaud their deed. Most of Peru applauded. The surge of patriotism was too strong to be resisted by President Luiz M. Sanchez Cerro of Peru, into whose tough little body would-be assassins have all too often fired bullets (TIME, March 14). By the end of last September both Colombia and Peru were mobilizing men, money and munitions. In Bridgeport, Conn, on Sept. 30, close-lipped Saunders Norvell, president of Remington Arms Co., exuberantly exclaimed...
Still common in the Empire of Abyssinia is human slavery. Every now & then bold subjects of His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie stage a slave raid into adjoining territory. Last week they raided Britain's Kenya Colony, carried off a fine herd of Kenya women & girls into slavery, left 150 Kenya men dead in their villages...
...After a raid the victors hold a ceremonial dance around the captured heads. Boys who had never before been in a fight have chicken blood smeared on their legs and feast distensively. Boys with their first heads get drunk and talk with visionary jaguars, boa constrictors, electric eels and other fierce creatures. The captured women stand and weep. Their weeping is important. If no woman was captured in the raid, the victors appoint their own women as proxies to weep for the gory heads. Each man who took a head goes on a strict diet for at least six months...
...women began knotting themselves into a mob before a branch office of the Associated Charities on St. Clair Avenue. Most of them were jobless. Donato Ferrante and Ben Favorito, their leaders, told them Associated Charities were deliberately starving them. The crowd yelled their assent to direct action. They would raid the branch office, get the wherewithal for one square meal. Suddenly six squads of police trotted up, threw themselves about the office. The mob of 800 was about to charge when the police set off tear gas. The raiders fell back blubbering. Police clubs broke the rest of the attack...