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Word: raines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden landslide from the rain-soaked, earthen cliffs that tower above the Rhone had sent a heaving mass of mud hurtling down Caliure Hill where it burst like a tidal wave upon two apartment houses, shattering and engulfing them, ripping open water mains which spouted and gas mains which promptly burst into flame. A little further down the very street on which the two apartment houses had stood is the comfortable bourgeois home of Edouard Herriot, for 25 years Mayor of Lyon, Leader of the Radical-Socialist Party, outstanding French statesman of the Left Centre, and therefore apparently destined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Up Herriot! | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...case of rain or unusually inclement weather, it is planned to hold the concert in the old Gymnasium.DIAGRAM OF THE NEW center for Class Day activities in the vicinity of the Houses. There will be supper and dancing in Eliot and Lowell, as indicated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEFF CHOSEN HEAD OF JUNIOR USHERS | 5/6/1932 | See Source »

...been a cold, raw day in London, with slow rain and eddying winds. Towards nightfall the rain stopped and wisps of fog trailed up off the Thames to settle over the city. St. Paul's rolled up in the distance, the Bridge stood like ghostly battlements, and the finger of St. Martin's in the Fields was an old woman in an old torn veil. It was quiet end ancient and very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/27/1932 | See Source »

...upper reaches of the Colonial Theatre, the applause of the audience sounded like rain on the roof. Two attendants, discussing the play outside the door of the dressing room number, parted hastily to admit Alice Brady, the Lavinia Mannon of O'Neill's long but not tedious "Mourning Becomes Electra." Miss Brady manoeuvred around adeptly in her black hoop skirts. Questioned about her agility she replied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Acting in "Mourning Becomes Electra" Worse Than Running In a Marathon, Says Alice Brady--I's Not Affected Morbidly | 4/22/1932 | See Source »

Expert In Hammond, Ind., presenting a melodrama from radio station WAE, Roland G. Palmer, sound expert, made noises like galloping horses, howling wind, pattering rain. When the script called for a pistol shot, Sound Man Palmer picked up a pistol, shot off two of his fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Guelph | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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