Word: raine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night of November 10, 1918, a group of bedraggled German soldiers talk over the chance of an early peace. Says one scoffer: "Aw, the War's never going to end. It'll go on forever." They roll over to sleep in their dugout like rats in a rain-soaked furrow...
...gaping tourists to London. Not the least of sanctified George V's services to his empire was the fact that he was born on June 3, when the weather is fine, when trade is apt to be dull. A king's birthday in the fog and rain of December and in the midst of the Christmas shopping rush is poor business. No reason whatever was given for choosing June 9 as George VI's birthday but the natural supposition was that weather records had been consulted...
Figures carved from wet sand are vulnerable to rain, wind and tide. Long ago the sand sculptors learned to mix one part of cement with three or four parts of beach, and their creations will withstand two or three years of hail or high water. But last week another force threatened to wipe out permanently much of the itinerant artists' handiwork and a livelihood which, although sand sculpturing has remained the piece de resistance and principal attraction, has lately come from the more lucrative practice of sketching board-walkers who pause to gawp at the modeling. Last week...
Washington Street is ablaze with marquees as the Vagabond weaves his way. In deadly peril his eyes blink and head ducks from sharp, swarming umbrellas. Ticket sellers, polished bars, and even the warped old lady vending gardenias are busy in the rain. Doors of movie palaces swing forever, and before the Park Theatre, flaunting its usual lascivious attraction, stand two sailor boys counting their coins...
Capping the rise of the wet grassy stretches is the tall Civil War monument. Around the crest are a siege gun and a captured tank. And lettered on the base of the column is an inscription barely visible through the dark of the rain...