Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amazing beginning. Weeks of intensive sneers in the Press had led them to believe that the bout between a 270-lb. champion from Italy and a challenger who was five years older and 86 Ib. lighter was as unfair as it sounded. Now, on a windy evening with rain pattering on rows and rows of empty $20 seats, they became aware that the spectacle under the warm cone of light at the centre of the Madison Square Garden stadium was an exciting contest between a clever, courageous boxer and a nervous, clumsy monster, embarrassed by his own size...
...weather forecast for the weekend is cloudy and warmer today, rain or snow Saturday, and clear and colder Sunday. Such conditions guarantee practically perfect skiing in the northern regions...
Ducky Pond was a spectacular halfback, tutored by Tad Jones. He is most famed for the game which won him his nickname, played in a driving rain with Harvard in 1923. Pond recovered a Harvard fumble, sloshed to Yale's first touchdown against Harvard in seven years. Since 1928 he has been on Yale's coaching staff in charge of scrubs and as chief scout. He is short, thick, dainty on his feet, exceedingly fast. On and off the field he is quiet. He does not scold his players, does not give fight talks, convinces them that they...
...committee found the hotels' water and sewerage piping systems so old and faulty that when heavily taxed they would let waste from bathtubs and toilets siphon back into drinking water pipes. Water and sewer pipes were cross-connected. Sewers were leaky. Last June 29 a heavy rain overloaded sewers near the Auditorium, flooded its basement. Three days later another cloudburst broke two of the Congress' sewers, filled its ice storage house and covered its food-packed basement three to six inches deep with muck...
...kissed by drunk and very very rich patrons, well she shall leave." Slightly annoyed, Anna meets her neighbor Jean, a taxi driver, and tells him her woes. Anna and Jean appear to be fond of one another; they quarrel; they settle their petty grievances in a doorway. The rain that had scattered the jubilant throng stops. Life is indeed pleasant. But there is a harlotish-looking friend of Jean who drops into his room and insists on staying for the night. All very innocent, of course, for Jean leaves, but when Anna goes to visit him the next morning...