Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actors earn their salaries. Greta Garbo (MGM), who was planning to retire until last fortnight when she was reported to have lost $1,000,000 in the failure of the First National Bank of Beverly Hills, may make a picture for Paramount. Joan Crawford (MGM) last week finished Rain for United Artists. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will lend Clark Gable to Paramount in exchange for Fredric March. Warner Brothers may return Ruth Chatterton for one picture to Paramount, whence they lured her last year. Universal will lend Lew Ayres to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for one picture opposite Norma Shearer. Next year...
...Oklahoma City, Prohibition Agents Alter Acord and Mel West went to raid a suspected house, found it was outside their jurisdiction. A storm came up. Ten inches of rain fell on Oklahoma. The North Canadian River overflowed its banks. The suspected house floated a quarter-mile, settled inside Agents Acord & West's jurisdiction. They boarded it, seized 700 bottles of beer...
...young gentleman when first seen was sitting on the doorstep staring disconsolately at the ground. Rain from the eaves dripped steadily down upon the rusty thatch of his head, but he noticed it not. There are some thoughts which are more searing than mere physical discomfort. As the Vagabond approached the better to divine the cause of all this anguish the young gentleman looked...
...help," and, in elaboration he pointed to the damp ground on which were strewn some three pounds of Cinnamon balls. "They spilled, you see," he added, much as though God, despairing at the inadequacy of rain had flung down a handful of Cinnamon balls in the interests of the earthly brethren...
...thinking of that," said the young gentlemen. "You see, I spilled them when I was bringing in the groceries and if I don't hurry the rain will spoil them." Haste was suggested, but was as soon rejected by this watcher of his own iniquity. He sat for a time shrouded in Cathedral silence. He had acquired the fatalism and the inactivity of the twelve-year-old. He had spilled three pounds of Cinnamon balls, salvation lay only in the laps of the far away gods upon Olympus...