Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have measured roughly and estimated that under the concrete horseshoe of the Stadium, in a space fairly well sheltered from snow, rain, and urchins, there is room to park two hundred automobiles from the end of the football season until June, without interfering in any way with either the Pistol Range or the maintenance activities of Dennis Enright's men. If a charge of $2 per car per month were made, some $2800 might accrue to the Athletic Association. I am sure that the student carriage trade will not consider $2 unreasonable, inasmuch as the public garages of the City...
...famous novel. The first half dealing with the young doctor's early married life in a small western town is refreshing, but once he gets into the clutches of the malarial jungles of a Carribean island the story becomes drizzly and melodramatic, and concerns itself mostly with rain and the ravages of the bubonic plague...
...Suddenly snipers, whom the Government later branded as Communists, began a random reckless fire from the rooftops which at first crackled over the heads of the Communists and soldiers. Instantly soldiers began to fire, some kneeling and shooting directly into the Communist ranks. Only a sudden burst of tropical rain cut short what might have been a massacre, but two hours later firing began again...
Arrested on complaint of Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr., son of the Manhattan oil tycoon, was his chauffeur, John Spinks, charged with forcing Son Rogers & wife out of their automobile into the rain during a night drive on a lonely road near Wayne, Pa., firing a pistol at them as he drove off. Chauffeur Spinks denied the charges, asserted that Son Rogers had kicked him in the back of the head and in the face when he was examining the car's lights. He did not know which of them had fired the gun, which belonged to Rogers, while they...
...stare of social dictators. Chester Morris is the prodigal who leaves the farm and "cleans up" in the Chicago Wheat Pit. He does this by the simple expedient of dressing up in rubber coat and hat, walking under a shower bath, and stampeding the Pit by crying. "Rain, rain," thus forcing down the price about ten cents and crowning his bear operations with success. This is accomplished before anyone has the presence of mind to look out the window...