Word: downpour
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...second set when rain again forced them to shelter. Back on the court again, Wood slammed home three games in succession to win 9-7. Playing brilliant tennis, the slim, grinning 22-year-old U. S. contender was swinging into his serve in the third set when a new downpour postponed the match until the next...
...content with this success, they descended on the Yard at a prearranged signal and besieged bedraggled students on their way to class. All morning they remained at their posts braving the downpour, clad in the regulation green regimentals...
...Congressional Record for those two days, however, would give an entirely different impression as to the Senate's industry. The clerk's desk was submerged under a steady drizzle of notifications by the states that they had ratified the liquor and child labor amendments. Followed a downpour of reports concerning almost everything from the progress of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine to the results of a survey of the cotton velvet and velveteen industry. These were succeeded by a torrent of communications from such organizations as the Rotary Club of Indianola, Iowa (for increased...
...apartment at No. 1260 Astor Street and plays middling and sometimes mildly profane golf with his friend Melvin Traylor of Chicago's First National, of which he is a director and member of the executive committee. But unlike many a Chicago tycoon who got drenched in the downpour of Depression odium, George Ranney has come through with his reputation unaspersed. Last week Mr. Ranney discreetly held his peace while Continental directors waited until the RFC's approval should make possible formal announcement of his selection. But LaSalle Street felt sure that shortly after New Year he would...
...Nassau St. between the years 1868 and 1915 was a long, ill-lit, barnlike room jammed with rolltop desks, littered with paper, its walls smeared with grime and dirt. When the presses pounded on the floor above, a thin downpour of dust floated over the room. Grimy wires and rusty old hooks used by gymnasts when Tammany Hall had occupied the building were suspended from the ceiling. A tortuous circular staircase led to the room, up & down which ambitious young reporters used to trudge: Arthur Brisbane, Samuel Hopkins Adams, David Graham Phillips, Edwin C. Hill, Will and Wallace Irwin, Walter...