Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place was a busy buzz of villagers making money from the 5,000 visitors, of visitors collecting souvenirs. Sunday dawned rainy, giving the natives new trade at the doors of the open-air theatre-hot-water bottles, blankets, umbrellas. All day through the long performance, wind and rain beat upon huddled spectators and struggling players. When the sun did burst out it made fine theatre, illuminating the soggy mob (700 peasants) clamoring for Pontius Pilate to order the Christ crucified. Comment at the village inns that night and on trains back to Berlin ran on the dignity and beauty...
...eight in a row. Today's contest will be the second this week for the Crimson. On Wednesday, it took a badly played tilt from Bates, 14 to 9, but the Villanova game which was postponed from Thursday to yesterday had to be cancelled the second time because of rain which commenced during the first half of the second inning...
Just as the potato farmer is never certain of what his crop will be, the oyster-man's reward is always doubtful. Thus last week the oystermen of Bivalve roundly cursed the fact that they have had little rain, that the brackish water needed for oysters was a little too salty, and hence inviting to starfish. No enemy so annoys the oyster as the starfish which, unintelligent in many matters, is smart enough to clutch the bivalve in a deathly grip and tug until Ostrea Virginica in a moment of exhausted abandon opens his shell and allows himself...
...Barograph, No Record. From the sheer cliffs bordering Point Loma, Calif, last week youthful Glider-Pilot Jack Barstow in a Bowlus sailplane was launched over the Pacific's edge. All that day and most of that night he soared over land and water, sometimes in cold wind and rain, conversing occasionally through the darkness with his friends below. When he landed, at the end of 15 hr. 13 min. he had shattered every existing endurance record for gliding* and yet, officially, had made no flight. Reason: he had taken along no barograph to register in ink, on a clock...
...written 18 novels, books of short stories, 24 plays. Some of them: Ashenden, or the British Agent, The Casuarina Tree, The Moon and Sixpence, Mrs, Craddock, Of Human Bondage, On a Chinese Screen, The Trembling of a Leaf; (plays) The Circle, East of Suez, The Letter, The Sacred Flame, Rain...