Word: raine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night. Into a taxicab for shelter. The driver takes her to his room. But he does not trust pick-ups. Takes his money out of the bureau ready to go to a friend's room for the night. Takes another look at her. Thinks she is pretty nice. Heavy rain drops tattoo the window panes...
Michael Arlen, who was not born yesterday, is sensitive to the shifts and veerings of popular sentiment. With the barometer dropping and economic-colored clouds massing in the sky, he needs no plebiscite to tell him that ladies in green hats had better come in out of the rain. In Man's Mortality there is not one perfumed whiff of Mayfair or Park Avenue; like a young H. G. Wells and without a backward glance Author Arlen has soared into the world of the future...
...variety opens with a series of acrobatic acts that shame most of our local vandeville. There are clowns, a night in Venice, and a bull-fight bloody and violent. Part two is an Oriental suite with singing and romancing. The scene then transfers to the tropics. Singing in the rain is the overture number followed by a Salome and sister act. A presentation in the manner and spirit of Josephine Baker was realistic, seductive, and sung by Lia Podrecca...
Despite these gleaming examples of the advantage of financial frankness, the New York Clearing House last week forcibly ejected reporters from its building, promised announcements which kept newshawks waiting all day outdoors in the rain, then announced that no announcements would be made. To get a few crumbs of information newshawks had to waylay bankers going & coming from Clearing House meetings. Little dared bankers say, for the right to issue statements belonged to the head of the Clearing House, tight-lipped Mortimer Norton Buckner...
...Thursday afternoon an inauguration-bound train roared through mist and cold rain, through vistas of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Citizen Roosevelt and captains of the Democratic host were speeding to the reward of victory at the polls...