Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Edward Albert Ridley had put on his rubbers rain or shine, clapped on a bowler over his flowing white hair, muffled himself in an overcoat outside of which he arranged his long, curly white beard, and had taken an early train to New York from his boarding house in Fanwood, N. J. In Allen Street he let himself through his door, descended a long ramp to what had once been the basement blacksmith shop of the stables of his father's large drygoods store. Before 1901, when the firm sold out, E. A. Ridley & Sons had done...
...Jersey. At the Passaic Home & Orphan Asylum, six boys -Jacob Merlnizek, John Murdock, Douglas Fleming, Rudolph Borsche' Frank & Michael Mazzola, all between 11 and 15-were worried. Maybe their baseball field was washing away. They cunningly approached their matron. Didn't she want to know if the rain had damaged her garden? She did. She said they might go out if they were careful to put on raincoats and rubbers. A quick look at the garden showed that it was all right. Closer inspection of the baseball diamond, where they played with worn-out canvas gloves and three...
...once with CRIMSON editors to determine what policy they should follow in dealing with the captive, in order to afford the best stories for metropolitan papers. Meantime, efficient telephoning from the Lampoon office had brought two press photographers to the steps of Randolph Hall, where in the drizzling rain they patiently waited for the "encounter" which Lampoon editors had promised, and to which CRIMSON men had courteously been invited. After some delay, caused by the jesters' belief that there were not sufficient reporters in the neighborhood to warrant an assault, the fracas was finally commenced and carried out to everyone...
...fourth victory yesterday, beating Quincy High School 6-4. R. S. Ayers '26 pitched a steady game, allowing only one hit. W. C. Egan, II '36, and E. W. Cushing '36, both hit three baggars in the fifth inning before the game was halted on account of rain in the sixth. Until the end of the game, playing conditions were excellent...
...Rain dappled the brownish waters of Wallabout Bay one morning last week. The intricately girded ways of Brooklyn Navy Yard were slickly wet. Four bells (10 o'clock) sounded. A drenched band struck up the national anthem...