Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well as in war. Then, in a practical-joking mood, he returned to Washington to review the final parade of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Sitting in a covered stand before the White House while the Shriners marched past him in a pouring rain, he was in high spirits, because by his telephoned request two of his best Roman Catholic advisers, Postmaster General Farley and SEChairman Kennedy, had hurried over to join him in honoring the Protestant "Nobles" plodding by with the red and blue dyes of their sateen regalia running into Pennsylvania Avenue...
...obliged by demanding another quorum, but this time Huey Long did not dare leave the floor for fear of losing his speech-making prerogative. Besides, the galleries were filling up with a new crowd-Washingtonians who preferred listening to the Kingfish to watching the Shriners parade in the rain. Going to the clerk's desk Long snatched up the official list of Senators...
Five million tons of rain fell on Atlantic City, the Weather Bureau calculated, the first day that the American and Canadian Medical Associations met there last week in joint convention. Thereafter the weather was clear and brisk, and the doctors, looking prosperous and vigorous, buckled down to the convention business of protecting their profession from laymen, of protecting laymen from quacks, of learning many a fact about disease. Some 300 men reported their last year's research. Dr. Emanuel Libman delivered the Billings Lecture (TIME, June 10). Study of 236 scientific and 225 commercial exhibits absorbed all the doctors...
...Rain threatened to spoil the preliminary celebrations of the Class of 1905 at the Weston Golf Club yesterday, but they survived, it was learned last night. Luncheon will be served by the Class today at the Dillon Field House, close at hand to the Stadium. The Class spread will be served on Commencement Day in Straus Hall...
Yale's reunion classes plodded out to the field through the rain, saw the weather clear off, were amazed by the stellar pitching of Eli Ted Horton only to see their hopes shattered by Gibb's winning clout...