Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was not all the Governor did. When the army got to Harrisburg he made them a speech, told them he sympathized with their demonstration, fed them all, provided shelter for the night. Father Cox's red truck rolled up to the outskirts of Washington in a torrential rain at 10:15 p. m. Pulling his black weeds about him, he picked his way into a drug store, ate a sandwich, drank a glass of milk, telephoned Washington's chief of police that they were there. That night some of his men slept in the District National Guard Armory...
...Lige, I have more men now than I need." "Boss, I jes' got to have a job. Dese is de hardest times on an old. nigger I ever saw. I can't get a job nowhere. I walked all de way out here, nine miles in de rain and I's hungry. I knows I can't work like a young nigger but I can still chop a little and don't care what you pay me.'' The job was in the red, he needed no more men: but what could any human...
...captain has picked up in a dory, voyage together from Central America to Manhattan. At the end of the voyage they are engaged. The foundling, an inarticulate urchin, gives a more sure-fire performance than either Cooper or Colbert. By crawling out on deck and sitting in the rain, he catches pneumonia. This indisposition resolves the difficulties which result from Cooper's discovery that his fiancee has been an inmate of a pleasure house in Cristobal. Shot: Cooper maintaining the tradition that no real man knows how to manipulate an infant, by splashing soapy water on the foundling...
Burke went out in the third round. So did Diegel. In a driving rain Wiffy Cox got a 5-hole lead on George Von Elm before the match was postponed at the 18th. Next day the best Von Elm could do was to hold his own until the 31st, when Cox laid, him a stymie two inches from the cup. Von Elm used his niblick, missed, and Cox's par 5 won the match...
...stone chapel. And before his grave they put a little marble slab that men who past that way might worship on their knees. The stone chapel has sunk beneath the weight of ages, but out in a little field there is a grass grown marble slab with hollows where rain water lodges and where knees have been...