Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd to shake the Landon hand as Lexingtonians whooped with pride, A driving rainstorm beat the Landon special to Omaha by a few minutes. Leaving his private car, the Kansas Governor climbed up on a baggage truck and shouted above the din: "This is a grand welcome and this rain is the finest thing I've seen this summer...
...General showers greeted the Commission in South Dakota. But Chicago's weather forecaster reported the rain of "little benefit...
Worst feature of the 1936 Salzburg season has been the rain which dampened Max Reinhardt's open-air performances of famed Jedermann ("Everyman") and Faust, in which appeared Paula Wessely, a charming German Gretchen...
Last week amid his green fields at Hyde Park President Roosevelt talked to the Press again of his plan to visit 1936's Greater Drought later this month. Perhaps he might again prove himself to be a rain maker but, if so, it would be too late to do any real good...
Taking no chances, Scotland Yard operatives of great brawn courteously and quietly pressed the veterans back, saw to it that His Majesty's pace was accelerated until he was clear of his well-wishers. Sudden rain, after the tea was half over, sent the King scurrying to the Palace for cover. At this the 5,000 Canadians, not knowing that English folk in similar circumstances usually take shelter under trees, dashed pell-mell after him into Buckingham where one astounded Palace flunky in scarlet & gold was heard to say to another, "It's like the bloody Revolution!" When...