Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...them. The early moments of the play remain listless while Playwright Mayer's dialog is getting up momentum. Waterloo Bridge. Close by Waterloo railway station in London is a bridge upon whose parapet are posted sooty little strumpets waiting for soldiers returning home on leave. A German air raid sends them scurrying to their rooms and Myra, chubby and scarlet-shirtwaisted, goes with: a slim fellow who proves to be incredibly cherubic for one who has served with the Canadian expeditionary forces. He used to be a Y.M.C.A. man. Not only does he fail to recognize Myra...
...utility company were in the cinema business. Some of Mr. Fox's stockholders seemed more gravely concerned than ever about their equities in the Fox companies. These stockholders, indeed, threatened a receivership and thereby produced not only a decline in Fox securities but a general bear raid on the entire Market...
...fame may be considered a Spanish masterpiece. It is another way of saying: "I will not be taken for a lecherous old swine like Primo de Rivera." For any Spaniard would recognize the allusion to an occasion when the Chief of Police of Madrid personally conducted a raid on a celebrated bawdy house, thundered on the door, and then slunk away as the proprietor whispered through the chink, "I can't let you in, because Primo is already here...