Word: raine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter of President Henry T. Ferris of National Bank Co. of St. Louis. To her was given St. Louis' highest social honor. The identity of the Veiled Prophet remained traditionally secret. Up & down the brilliantly lit hall promenaded the Prophet and his court, then drove through pouring rain to the Hotel Jefferson for a supper & dance. Visitors to St. Louis last week had not only the Veiled Prophet's celebration to witness, but could also attend the dairy & horse shows, could watch the St. Louis Cardinals win the World's baseball championship...
...York 28 hr. ahead of the steamer (TIME, Sept. 21). The Bremen's mail should be there 30 hr. ahead of time. The catapult on the Bremen's sundeck whirred; the plane shot into the sky 1,300 mi. northeast of Ambrose Lightship and flew on into rain, fog & headwind. At dark she alighted for a moment on Glace Bay Harbor to check position with a fishing boat; at 9 p. m. she put down on Sydney Harbor with ten minutes' fuel supply in her tanks; at midnight, refueled, she flew on again in the darkness...
...hundred years ago a man lay dying in Vienna. Without a storm rolled deep thunder around the city, laid jagged streaks of light against the back-ground of the sky. And there was a great wind that soughed in the eaves and pitched the rain against dirty windows. But for all the dying man knew of the storm, he heard it not, for he was deaf. It was enough to know that the gods were angry, that Beethoven was dying. He raised himself on his elbow and, in the glare of a spray of lightning, shook his first...
Playwright of The Breadwinner is William Somerset Maugham (Rain, The Letter, The Circle). Unlike the best of his works, this comedy is simply a bag of parlor tricks performed by dialog...
...next few days three more flights were made, at night and in the rain. Be fore the Navy officially accepts or rejects the Akron she will have undergone at least 75 hr. of trials, including a rigorous test of turning radius, a speed test with wide open motors, a climbing test, a 48-hr, flight to recapitulate all conditions...