Word: downpour
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RAIN?Religion and morality mildewed by the ceaseless downpour of a South Sea Island...
Crowds of students who braved the downpour were thrilled time and again to see Captain Maphis, Frost, Walp, Diffey or Cuddy rip through the defending eleven and race down the field. Coach Neale kept shifting his backs, but the march toward the uprights was not halted...
When the day for the Grand Parade came, rain began to fall. Assembling in the downpour, 1,350 veterans marched the 21 blocks over the scheduled route; 2,500 more followed in automobiles. All of them might have ridden if they had cared to, but most of them preferred to march, rain or no rain...
...Marriage Cheat. This little screen sister of Rain has a steady downpour on its South Sea island. Also, it has a minister who fis sorely tempted, after preaching Hellfire and brimstone at the poor native sinners who wear their sins openly. But in this case the rain washes everyone clean. The minister who plans to leave with the woman he loves?a wife who has fled ashore from the yacht of her wastrel millionaire husband?finally sends her back to the debauchee. It seems a foolish thing to do?perhaps he was touched by the heat. But the picture...
...downpour of last Saturday which necessitated abandoning the Dartmouth baseball trip left Coach Slattery's pitching staff in better condition for the present week, the most rigorous of the entire schedule. This afternoon at 4 o'clock the Springfield College nine, conqueror of Boston College, will parade its wares before the Crimson fans. On Wednesday, the near-major-leaguers from Holy Cross will be the attraction, and on Saturday the Big Three series will be opened by an invasion from Princeton, practically as strong as Holy Cross...