Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once when introduced to him by Ethel Barrymore, again when he was playing with Maxine Elliott. Said Brady: "Well, young man, I hope that some day you'll have a big part." Dante's Inferno (Fox). See ten million sinners writhing in eternal torment . . . cringing under the Rain of Fire . . . consumed in the Lake of Flames . . . struggling in the Sea of Boiling Pitch . . . toppling into the Crater of Doom . . . wracked by agony in the Torture Chambers . . . PLUS THE MOST SPECTACULAR CLIMAX EVER CONCEIVED...
...bookmakers, many of whom had arrived the night before on the "Cavanagh Special" (named for famed Ringmaster John G. Cavanagh), made Postage Due the favorite. The horse Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's trainer, Tom Healey, predicts will be better than Equipoise, a big chestnut colt named Red Rain, they dismissed contemptuously at 6-to-1. After the Mash the yapping of bookmakers that kept Saratoga's sparrows awake was mostly about Red Rain. Left at the post and running a miserable last, eight lengths behind the field at the half-mile post, he had suddenly come to life running...
...During last week's trial Midwest newspapers temporarily promoted her from a cafeteria hostess to a night club hostess, reconsidered, returned her to the cafeteria. Her last night she had seen Public Hero No. 1 with a friend who had left her to go home alone in the rain...
Unconditional Evil was Gerald Thompson, 26, machinist, who noted in his diary some 83 women he had tried to seduce. To Peoria's pride, 67 of his attempts were unsuccessful. He had come along in his car in the rain, given Miss Hallmark a lift, liked her so well he choked her unconscious, hit her on the jaw and threw her into the ditch. The Press at first rated him "handsome, curly-haired, muscular." Then it came out that on his night-prowlings he carried scissors to snip women's underclothes, had made a New Year...
...wheat belt?farmers, bankers, professional men, grain brokers, millers. Every correspondent receives a questionnaire each month asking the condition of the crop in his neighborhood. Before answering he generally takes a spin in his car through the fields, carefully inspecting the stand for blight, damage from drought or rain, condition of the kernel. He makes his report to the forecaster on the basis of percentage of normal?normal being the long-range average yield. Since the forecasters already know how many acres have been planted, the estimate of yield is arrived at by multiplying the normal yield by the percentage...