Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow lines, tent lines, work lines. For the benefit of those who did not know what they swore to, the 237-word C. C. C. enlistment oath was reprinted. Local camp news appeared under such headings as " 'Sing in Rain' at Hills Grove," "Things 'Nice' at Allenton," "Camp Perkins Is Busy," "Two AWOLs Come Back." Offered was a $5 prize for the best nickname for C. C. C. workers to match the A. E. F.'s "doughboy." Happy Days was priced at $1 for six months...
...exultant Whig neighbors. On May 11, 1783, following arrangements between British General Carleton in New-York and the Governor of Nova Scotia, the "Spring Fleet" carrying refugees from New York dropped anchor at the mouth of the St. John River. Kept aboard their ships by high seas and driving rain, they did not land for a week. All summer long the Spring Fleet ferried back & forth until some 20,000 men, women and children had been transported. They were not the ordinary type of emigrant. The Spring Fleet carried De Peysters, Ludlows, Richards and Billopps of New York, Uphams...
...with a smooth crowd who were making a very good thing out of a railroad company. He never quite gathered what it was all about, but he knew what to do while the sun was shining. When at last the clouds gathered and it began to rain investigations, Joe got soaked. He escaped to Canada (where he found the Governor of Georgia a fellow-refugee...
...acres of good wheat land. The seed sprouted. The farmer returned to pass long winter evenings by his radio, leaving the care of his crop to the climate that God should provide. But snow did not come to protect the seedlings from the cold and or rain did not fall to give them moisture when they needed it in spring. When the farmer went forth in the early May sunshine, instead of finding his flat fields covered with a lush green growth of young grain, he found the soil all but bare...
...writer of popular songs, has consented to play some of his compositions at the Jubilee on Friday evening it was announced last night. Green's Broadway fame was made by writing such songs as "Body and Soul," "Hello, My Lover, Goodbye," "I'm Yours," "Living in Dreams," "Rain, Rain, Go Away," and the more recent "You're Mine You." During orchestral intermissions, Green will entertain by playing in the downstairs Common Room of the Union...