Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kissed her with utter tenderness, as they lay on dry pine needles. Her hair was wet from the rain and she was cold. Suddenly before his closed eyes the vision swept of the peace of perfect sunlight as it plays symphonically among dancing green leaves in a forest at noon, and the sweetest singing of many brooks was in his ears, as he said: "Girl, will you marry...
...Symphony in its summer concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, was away on a fortnight's vacation. As guest conductor, Leon Barzin, 32, was called to give five concerts, leading the great orchestra in which he had been top man. One night last week he had his premiere and, though rain kept the crowds away, next day the critics rained applause...
...actors and actresses will serve as the stage and will be draped to resemble, a bedroom or a garden as the script demands. In the play, Bernard Shaw invokes all his dry humor against the fanfare of war mock bravery, and the gold buttons. In case of rain the performance will be held indoors in Sanders Theatre. Two years ago when the Jitney Players almost 500 spectators, summer school students and public attended...
Blinding javelins of lightning encircled the colossal pile, and after each succeeding shower there was blinding darkness all around. Rain washed the wide expanse of windows intermittently and the wind in the chimneys moaned and shrilled like some dying titan. It was a fit night for ghoulish purposes, unthinkable horrors that drive the possessor slowly mad. In the cavernous vault the noise of thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve...
...loudly for Roosevelt, was now picking his political plum. Last week Governor Gore flew to Puerto Rico to take up his duties and announce a New Deal. As his airplane approached San Juan, he seized a microphone, broadcast a plea to Puerto Ricans for cooperation. Despite a downpour of rain there was a crowd waiting to welcome him, escort him to the ancient fort which is the Governor's mansion. His first public act was to attend mass in the cathedral. To Puerto Ricans this was an auspicious start. Then he repaired to the capitol for his inaugural address...