Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a promise to eliminate ad valorem taxation and substitute for it a graduated tax on gross incomes to get money from "the corporate interests (oil and gas companies) now leeching the commonwealth." He made a hitchhiking campaign throughout the state as "The Poor Man's Friend," promised rain, a "Howdy" sign on the Governor's door. He sang...
Soon a light rain sent some of the guests scuttling into the Palace, but not their Majesties, nor those true Britons who knew their etiquette. It is a noble tradition that the Royal Garden Party is never called off because of rain. Sheltered beneath capacious umbrellas. Their Majesties strolled about as though not a drop were falling, zealously attended by Vice Chamberlain Jack Hayes, a Laborite who used to be a policeman...
...Paris, famed Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, 69, was caught in a rain storm, dashed for shelter, thereby dis covered?since the effort caused him no pain?that his physician has cured him of phlebitis (inflamed veins...
...bleak row of empty stone buildings; amphitheatres where the lions of Libya enjoyed Christians; the place where Cato committed suicide; a strange unknown city called the City of Fear, buried in the middle of the Sahara. The houses of this city, built in a country where in modern times rain never falls, were made entirely of sand and mud and stood eight stories high. There is a palace equipped with a complete heating plant; in the tomb of a dancing girl buried 2,000 years ago are a vanity case, a variety of rouges, mirrors, jewels, phials of perfume...
...would be impossible to write a whole book, and make it interesting, about one day in the life of a country doctor. Authoress Ashton fooled him. She wrote most of Dr. Serocold on fishing trips in Ireland, scribbling in little notebooks in a microscopic hand which the rain helped make illegible to anyone else. She has also written three children's books...