Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avert a riot, England's merchants, hard-pressed themselves by the Depression, began to dole out food to the hungry. More than 300 were each supplied with a ration worth $2.75. Fearful of a repetition of the raid, Lawyer Morris declared: "These people just simply got hungry. The merchants of England must either move their goods or mount machine guns on their stores...
Same day a band of 100 Nicaraguan insurgents twice attempted to raid the Guardia Nacional barracks at Quilali, were beaten off. Three days later a Marine patrol under Captain Ernest L. Russell, scouting for the band that had wiped out the repair crew, fought off an ambush of 150 outlaws, but not before two Marines had been wounded...
...Luke Faber, conservative New Englander. manufacturer and gentleman-driver of racing cars. He is rich, socially correct. has a mistress and a fiancee, is popular with his fellow-townsmen and a power in the local American Legion. When the Reds make trouble in Rivertown factories. Faber helps organize a raid on their headquarters. Then comes the annual automobile race, "the Rivertown classic." Faber, the local favorite, is doing well, when he blows a front tire, hits the rail and crashes...
...week, a group of determined individuals muscled their way past the doorman. One of them interrupted the orchestra, seized a megaphone and-as every one acquainted with the place had expected would happen some day soon- announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, the next number of the program will be a raid. The place is in the custody of the Federal Government." Hostess Livingstone fled across her wee golf course, tried to get to one of the windows which she had prudently equipped with rope ladders to the street below. She was caught, jailed, later released on $2,000 bond. The entertainment...
...comedy which bases its appeal on noise, cheap wisecracks, furniture smashing, the loss of trousers and similar devices will not enjoy The Life of the Party. It is a slapstick feature with Winnie Lightner and Irene Delroy as a pair of golddiggers who are discharged from a music store, raid a dressmaking establishment, and go to Havana looking for kind old men. It is stupid stuff, yet funny. Best line: a horse-racing Colonel (Charles Butterworth), seeing his entry turn around and run the wrong way when a black cat crosses the track: "Ah, the pity...