Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kisses were showered by Prime Minister Benito Mussolini in a pouring rain upon both cheeks of Air Minister Italo Balbo, as much a hero to Rome last week on his return from flying the South Atlantic as was Sir Malcolm Campbell in London...
...does it rain frogs...
...course the stars are near. Who, but a few old fossils, ever thought otherwise? . . . All these notions . . . were matters of common knowledge, away back in the times of ancient Greece." Fort thinks that the earth is practically stationary, that it is an organism, and that scientifically unexplained phenomena like rain from a clear sky or frogs from a cloudy one are organic self-adjustments, reflex actions...
...Vagabond has been sorely buffeted by the boisterous winds of the past two days, and the slanting rain which somehow seems to penetrate his every garment has caused him to reflect sadly that even the erudite and philosophically-minded race of Vagabonds are susceptible to the same bodily ills as their more mundane brethren. And you can take the Vagabond's word for it; there are better heated apartments in Cambridge than the draughty towers of Memorial Hall. Though true to his ancient abode, at times he things with envy in his heart of the steam heated warmth...
...Hobart Ames big plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn., over rolling country and meadowland covered with Japanese clover, the best bird dogs in the U. S. had trouble. The weather was warm and grey; rain threatened. Rex's Tar-heelia, Rumson Farm Queen, Junedale Lady Bird made some mistakes. Some of the dogs were pointing land turtles and stink-birds; several times deer interfered with the trials. Yankee Doodle Jack, black & white setter, looked best with six bevies and a single, but Shore's Carolina Jack was still in it. A wonderful last day might...