Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even with a dearth of ideas President Keppel and his Carnegie trustees managed in one year to rain $4,855,747 in philanthropic manna down upon all the English-speaking world. As usual library interests got most of the Carnegie bounty-$1,186,300. They needed it, for, while the total income of 21 ranking public libraries in the U. S. was dropping from $11,600,000 to $8,800,000 in two years, book circulation was jumping from...
...glittering through the streets of Montevideo in uniforms dating from the War of Liberation from Spain (1810). Escorted by galloping lancers Dr. Gabriel Terra, heavyset, heavy-jowled President & Dictator, sped to open the Conference at 6 p. m. Alighting from their limousines in a sudden squall of wind and rain, delegates of 21 American nations clutched their silk hats and fled with flapping coattails up the marble steps of Uruguay's Legislative Palace to take refuge from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber. In the excitement the delegates of Paraguay got shunted...
...morning, every evening he practiced his tennis, developed a powerful forehand drive, a smashing backhand "down the line." At 24, Walter Merrill Hall was national clay court doubles champion. At 30 he came within two points of beating Bill Tilden in the national singles, might have done so if rain had not blurred his spectacles. At 45, last summer, he won the New Hampshire State championship. Last week his devotion to the game brought its high reward when he was nominated for the presidency of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association with election in February a foregone conclusion. The selection...
...producers) presents Florence Reed, far from her Mother Goddam of the Shanghai Gesture, as the hard-riding, bawling matriarch of an aristocratic family which owns a racehorse. It develops that her children were fathered by the butler and that the horse has a bar sinister too. But through a rain of horsey talk it seems that purity of race is not everything. The son fends off a designing chorus girl. The daughter finds here true love. The horse winds the Futurity at Belmont Park (offstage), saves the family fortunes. And Florence Reed, permitted mellow, quizzical and domineering has a high...
...Griffin's are foiled in a manner which must not have been ingenious enough to satisfy Carl Laemmle Jr. The invisible man has already realized that he must not operate after meals until his food has been transparently digested and that he must never go out in the rain lest water, collecting on the tip of his vague nose, betray his presence. He is stupid enough, none the less, to go to sleep in a barn one snowy night. When he comes out a posse of policemen shoot him in his tracks...