Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Easter Sunday the President, his wife and Son James went in the rain to the incompleted Washington Cathedral to worship. Next day President Roosevelt appeared briefly on the South Portico to watch the annual public White House egg rolling. He smiled, remarked: "There seem to be as many adults as there are children...
...Gothic Vaulting of the Vagabond's narrow cell grew dim in the dusk of the late afternoon. Outside the rain drizzled down, blanket upon blanket, showing the streets below a black ribbon in which closely wrapped figures hastened under the shuddering arcs to the bright shelter of heated chambers. Through the racing, crowding thunderheads above, there still broke a few dull rays of yellow light, which reflected eyrily from Memorial's gray and blood slates into the oaken garret. The Vagabond turned from the casement to the dark and empty chimney corner and lighted the lamp by his deep leathern...
Exhaling cigaret smoke through his nose, a slight man, tough as raffia, brown as leather, leaned over a collapsible campstool tugging at the laces of his chamois slippers. Into the concrete cave of his dressing-room crept the sound of remote applause. A distant rain of handclapping drifted in, and many smells-a realistic mixture of axle-graphite, new timber, horse sweat, ropes, giraffe dung. His laces pulled and fastened, the wiry little man stood up and flexed his fingers, appraised their steely strength. A buzzer sounded from behind a dented locker, a girl's voice called out with...
...RAIN IN THE DOORWAY - Thorne Smith - Doubleday, Doran ($2). Racy twaddle by the author of The Bishop's Jaegers...
...Akron was nosing above a cloud of fog northeast near Philadelphia. From 30 miles to the south lightning split the sky. In another hour it was crashing on all sides of the Akron, but she continued to ride steadily. By 11 p.m., the lashing of wind and rain became severe. When the executive officer...