Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England last week when six U. S. lady golfers upset six English ladies in three two-ball foursomes, the English game. Then in the middle of the singles a rain came driving down, it was just England in May, and the English ladies were at home. Observers predicted an English victory in the rain. On the drenched hills and dales of the Wentworth course in Surrey the three ranking Americans were rained under. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare took a routine beating 6 & 4 from England's poker-faced Joyce Wethered, rated the world's greatest woman golfer. Pretty...
...braced herself, squared her match on the 15th, won the next two holes. Mrs. Opal S. Hill, 40, of Kansas City was also a game tag-ender. Molly Gourlay had gone out in 38 to put her two down. Mrs. Hill came home in 39 with the match squared. Rain or shine, the team score thus stood 5½ to 3½, first victory for a U. S. ladies' team invading England...
...wise Bernt Balchen, Miss Earhart became not only the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic but also she set a speed record from Harbor Grace of 14 hr. 56 min. Advance reports of good weather she found "100% wrong." Ice on the wings forced her down into rain, fog and gusty squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds she met the shore...
...carrying it and without further ado the police officer started hitting him repeatedly with a heavy lathi as hard as he could hit, on every part of his body, including many blows on his head. The man was knocked down, and became unconscious after a short time, but the rain of blows continued, even while he was lying maimed and helpless on the ground...
...Frances Kent of Chicago), daughter-in-law of the Secretary of Commerce, made her professional stage debut with a Denver stock company as Sadie Thompson in Rain...