Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September in the Rain", tune which Melton introduces in his downtown night club promises to achieve some success. For this, and a few moments of good music, the picture is worth going...
Down on him promptly fluttered a rain of protests. Bird-lovers argued that the golden eagle's chief prey is such small fry as rabbits, squirrels and woodchucks, that it feeds on larger animals only when they are dead or dying...
...11Athletics 5 Senators 3 Yankees 2 Tigers 4 Indians 3 Browns-White Sox--Rain Giants 4 Dodgers 3 Cardinals 2 Reds 0 Pirates 5 Cubs...
...Brand new was the most squirm-making act of all, a Hopi Indian snake dance. While portly Col. Tim McCoy explains that the idea is to placate the snakes because in them rest spirits who can return to the rain gods and intercede for a good corn crop, eight painted, breech-clouted Hopis trail around in a circle holding one or two snakes apiece, while a man in the centre waves a bunch of feathers to divert the serpents' attention. As a public precaution, the snakes' fangs have been removed or are kept folded back by little buckskin...
...might seem a campaign, a crusade, a cause; but to the men who did its manual labor it was "a bellyache, a confused strife for boxcar space, a useless march, a grudge at troopers and gunners and wagoneers, a surfeit of hills and towns and faces and sunshine and rain of the Cumberland Valley. It was too many men and too few women, it was homesickness and yet wanderlust, and a cut finger which was slow to heal...