Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Also aboard was gloom, for behind them in Newport were their wives and many a sweetheart. Forty miles to Long Island's tip slowly steamed the fleet, to drop anchor in Fort Pond Bay, sheltered by the curve of Montauk Point, where dimly through fog and rain could be seen the bulk of the Montauk Manor hotel above the cottages of the tiny fishing village of Montauk...
...dirty night the fleet anchored, Seaman Francis Barnes fell overboard from a ship's boat and was drowned. Next day it rained hard. Grumblings began to be heard. The grumblings became open complaints: there was nothing to do in Montauk, nothing to look at but the fishermen's cottages and the hotel, at which prices were too high even for captains; rain kept all but a few sailors from the carnival at Patchogue; it would cost $5 for a round-trip ticket to New York. The complaints grew louder, settled into an insistent charge of "logrolling...
...team made no errors, against the Boston Red Sox, in Washington, 5 to o. C. St. Brideaux, three-year-old race horse owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: the Saratoga Handicap, feature at the opening of the Saratoga Springs, N. Y., race meeting. Two days prior, a violent wind, rain and thunder storm had carried away the roofs of two stables, part of the roof of Saratoga's Grand Union Hotel, felled hundreds of trees one of which came down on an auto belonging to George H. Bull, president of the Saratoga Association. ¶Temperamental, towheaded George Martin Lott...
...Winnipeg, Man., Chief Buffalo Bow of the Northern Saskatchewan Indians was distressed by the prolonged drought. He mustered his braves, organized a rain dance to invoke the Great Spirit. Thereupon it rained for two days...
They scarcely saw the ocean during the 16-hour crossing. It was as predicted, a struggle with fog, rain & low clouds the whole way. But Navigator Magyar caught many radio bearings; the monoplane, another Lockheed, hit the coast of France only a trifle off course. They had estimated 26 hours flight to Budapest with two hours fuel to spare. But headwinds over Europe upset that. Just 25 miles short of the goal, at 12 minutes past the 26th hour, the Wasp motor gasped for gas. Endres landed the plane in a rough field, damaging the undercarriage and propeller. Thence another...