Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blanc, in midmorning. He arrived at the Tete Rousse shelter, 10,390 feet high, at 3 p. m. After a night's sleep he rose at 3 a. m., started up the last 4,000 feet of sheer, snow-clad rocks to the Vallot shelter. Then rain and fog set in. Guides declared further climbing dangerous. So Minister Zay, from 3,000 feet below, dedicated a glistening hospice constructed of duraluminum* erected at 14,312 feet by the Alpine Club of France...
Every morning all over the U. S., radio announcers, rain or shine, greet the new day with syrupy chirps. But at Manhattan's Station WNEW a dissenting note is sounded. At 7 a. m. the Early Risers Club are introduced to another horrible morning by Jim Grouch (forenoon name of versatile Broadcaster Bob Carter...
...sends him to a private school in England. During his eight months there, he refuses to say a word-his comment on human trustworthiness. His only companion is a cretin who tries to swallow the silverware, drinks ink, knows only two sentences: "Don't worry" and "Right as rain." The night Ferdinand is leaving he is frenziedly seduced by the headmaster's wife, who then jumps in the harbor...
...Army freight transport Meigs zigzagged all night in a light rain, sending up flares and fingering the dark water with her searchlights. Late the next afternoon, 400 miles east of San Bernardino Strait in the Philippines, she came upon a vast patch of gasoline and oil, like rainbow-tinted gossamer rising and falling on the Pacific swells. She radioed her discovery to Manila. Airmen guessed that under the oil patch, in 5,000 fathoms, were 15 dead men and a handsome $450,000 airplane, the Hawaii Clipper...
...Swithin, a Bishop of Winchester who died July 2, 862, was moved to a shrine in 971 on July 15, He had asked to be buried "exposed to passing feet and rain falling from...