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Today is a nice but cloudy day-nice to go to a county fair and sleep on a surrey seat. Tomorrow it will likely rain-a good day to stay home and commune with Mr. Liddy's invention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Weather Gagman | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...misses death a dozen times, is once captured by Shawnees, escaping in time to render great service to beleaguered Boonesborough. This is the best sequence in the picture. On fire after a nine-day siege by Indians and renegade whites, Boone's stockade is saved by a heavy rain-a deed of Providence so terrifying to the superstitious braves that they quit fighting. When the Virginia knaves have stolen with a legal writ the acres that defied the tomahawk, Boone and his men, Kentuckians now, turn to the trail again, westward into a waiting continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 5, 1936 | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...RAIN-A highly sexed and angry torrent against South Sea missionaries. Jeanne Eagels guides the flood with notable distinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 24, 1924 | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

...RAIN-A highly sexed and angry torrent against South Sea missionaries. Jeanne Eagels guides the flood with notable distinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 14, 1924 | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

...RAIN-A study in sex relations, pure and profane, demonstrating that missionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Dec. 24, 1923 | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

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