Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drizzle that proved the point. The noise of trunks bumping on the steps of Thayer and Matthews, of Gallatin and Walter Hastings would have jarred on the Vagabond's nerves on a bright sunny day when sounds seemed to reverberate from their origin. But the rain was a dull absorbent muffler. It was like--thought the Vagabond--it was like a ball of wool falling on a Persian...
...always been like this. There had always been a drifting rain that dampened the spirits of new freshmen and made the buildings look dilapidated. But upperclassmen recognized only Cambridge and made easy conversation, "What weather...
...were saved. "Govvie" jumped off the stern, found a dangling rope, clung to it for six hours. Said he afterward: "I had to watch women I'd met and danced with drop off one by one and hear their desperate and familiar voices pleading. Finally there was a perfect rain of people. A hundred or more came leaping over the side to escape a sudden burst of flames. They hit one another in the descent. Many sank like stones...
...years, a horse in Captain Schultz's Circus performing in Rochester, N. Y.'s Centennial celebration last week, trotted a lion around the ring each afternoon & evening. Rain fell one afternoon and the board platform, set up outdoors in a park, grew wet and slick. In the midst of its act the horse slipped, nearly threw its rider. When the act was over the lion, a four-year-old named "Baby," lunged at the horse's throat. Its trainer was too quick for it, drove it from the ring...
While Mr. Sinclair was stepping ashore in Manhattan, the rest of U. S. oildom was assembled in the rain at Titusville, Pa., celebrating the 75th anniversary of the drilling of the first oil well by the late Col. Edwin I. Drake. The celebration was no love feast. While Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania smiled on the speakers' platform, Axtell J. Byles of the American Petroleum Institute keynoted: "Upon the rock of rugged individualism this nation was founded...