Word: raine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Van Ryn (East Orange, N. J.) could win their match against Prenn & von Cramm, all the U.S. needed was one more singles match and Vines was almost sure to get it against von Cramm. For the doubles, the Bouhana courts were slower than ever, after a heavy rain, but it made no difference to Allison & Van Ryn who have played abroad long enough to know all about soft French courts and slow French tennis balls.* Aided by superb teamwork and Prenn's double faults, they won what turned out to be the deciding match in straight sets?...
...LONDON OMNIBUS?Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). 1,400 pages of novels, stories, essays, plays, poems by A. P. Herbert (The Water Gypsies), Somerset Maugham (Rain), Virginia Woolf (Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown). Noel Coward (Private Lives), Aldous Huxley (The Cicadas & Other Poems}. 13 other famed Londoners, reprinted from original plates, August choice of the Literary Guild...
...stews were thin, the rain cold, the sun hot and politics rampant in the camps of the Bonus Expeditionary Force at Washington last week. Time hung heavy on idle hands made restless by malnutrition. Four radical veterans were caught selling Communist propaganda, turned over to police. Two more were hustled out of the city by B. E. F. "military police" who manhandled their charges on the way. General Pelham Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia's police, having guaranteed equal rights for all, urged the assaulted Communists to bring charges against their assailants...
...cost of a bushel of corn. Corn on the Iowa farm last week was selling at 20-21¢ a bushel while hogs on the farm brought $4.25, or twice as much as usual. Only thing that disturbed farmers was the prospect of a rise in corn prices. Rain sent the corn stalks much beyond the established "knee high by Fourth of July" tradition, but the same rain has made ploughing hard, weeds abundant...
...school spends $200 in preparing for an outdoor pageant. In case of rain, the $200 will all be lost: but, if the weather is fair, the pageant will give a profit of $400. To protect itself against loss, the school takes out insurance against rain. The insurance policy is for a definite sum paid for by the school at a definite percentage of the amount of the policy. After paying the cost of the insurance, it is calculated that in case of rain the school will clear 3/10 of the amount for which it is insured, and that in case...