Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thin wisp of smoke arising from the offended garment. Wing seemed in the best of spirits after this demonstration of his ironing ability, and went on to observe, "We're going to build airplanes, a thousand airplanes, ten thousand airplanes, and we'll go over their big cities and rain bombs all over them. We'll stir all their cities up like so much curry and rice." Mr. Wing seized a fresh iron and demonstrated with it how, as commander of ten thousand Chinese airplanes, he would sweep down upon Tokio, and swiftly reduce it to ruins...
...compared with a demonstration last week when Governor Murray shot across the Red River bridge he had fought for last summer and led a motorcade of 300 cars back to his Texas birthplace. Along the 40-mi. route to Collinsville, Texas farmers turned out to cheer him in the rain. Col. William Easterwood came from Dallas to Collinsville to introduce him to a huge crowd as "our next President." About the streets "Murray-For-President" banners flapped in the drizzle. An Oklahoma band played "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You." "We're All for Alfalfa Bill," said...
...great Chief Crazy Horse; returned for an extended stay to write down the old man's own story. At its conclusion the party went to the top of Harney Peak. There the medicine man delivered his final lamentation for his people; from a droughty sky he called rain to accompany his tears. Black Elk's friend Standing Bear illustrates his visions in his heaven-kissing book...
...mountains between Guayaquil and Quito, where rain had been pouring for a fortnight, there were heavy landslides. Telegraph lines were broken, train service suspended. Prices in Guayaquil skyrocketed. President Baquerizo Moreno's granddaughter applied the raw flesh of a Guayaquil beef to her blackened...
Last week's Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid were handicapped by the fact that winter sports are more fun to practice than to watch, by intermittent snow, rain, thaw. Main competitive features of the games were: i) the surprising defeat of the Norwegians, who won most points in 1924 and 1928, in the skating races and the 18-kilometre lang lauf (ski race); 2) the amazing incompetence of the Japanese, who had come to the Olympics at their own expense to become better acquainted with winter sports. The Japanese fancy skaters, who had studied this sport in books...