Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outside, rain poured down in sheets. Despite a seeming cure hemophilia-successively the curse of the Romanovs and the Bourbons-brooded over the match. In haste Father Borel read a brief Latin, service. Swiss police, alarmed by a threatening note that the bridegroom was in "grave danger," guarded every shadow of the church. Almost furtively, as the serv ice ended, the new Count & Countess slipped out, dashed away in a motor car to spend their honeymoon some 30 miles distant at Evian-les-Bains...
...monster dragons, alternately benevolent and merciless, writhe completely across China in the shape of her two mightiest rivers, the Yangtze which Chinese call "Long River," and the Hwang Ho ("Yellow River"), each more than 2,500 miles long. Last week China's rain gods were pouring destructive torrents into the two River Dragons' veins. Mad with fear, myriads of peasants and town dwellers remembered that as recently as 1931 the Hooding Yangtze chased 10,000,000 Chinese from their homes and killed 140,000 by drowning alone-not to mention the ensuing famine: the greatest disaster of modern...
...Mennonite sect on the central Illinois flats. Tilling the soil on large farms, its rugged members have always opposed modern machinery on theological grounds. The Colony was steadfast even during the World War, when increased production would have meant bigger profits. Last week the Mennonites compromised. First, rain had held up planting. Second, heat had felled horses. After prayer and conference, the Mennonite elders voted to rent some tractors, to hire some drivers. But piously they vowed that as soon as they caught up, out would go tractors and drivers again...
...river the wind, cold after rain, was blowing hard when the two shells jumped away from the stake boat. Harvard shot ahead in the spray of the racing start. As Stroke Cassedy slid his beat down to 31, Yale drew even and then ahead, three quarters of a length at the half mile, two lengths at the mile. Here, where an inexperienced oarsman might have tried too hard to whittle down the lead, Cassedy was satisfied to let Yale set the pace. From time to time, fencing with Bill Garnsey in the stern of the other shell, he sent...
...Manhattan she offers herself and her services to a producer in return for a part in a smart comedy. Men she picks up and drops by the hodful until a strapping socialite, not unlike Miss Eagels' husband, Yale Footballer Ted Coy, does her wrong. A play not unlike Rain, called Port of Call, in which Miss Larrimore decks herself out as vulgarly as if she were about to play Sadie Thompson, furnishes the volatile actress immense satisfaction. She can tell the men in the play what she thinks of them. But soon physical illness leads her to take narcotics...