Word: raining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles high, cut off the nominally sovereign scions of Spain in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, from the vas' hinterland tracts which Peru has quietly and simply taken. Quito perches at an altitude of two miles, has a Savoy Hotel, steep streets, abundant flowers, about one hour of rain almost every day in the year, and-wonder of wonders-a rail connection with the seaport Guayaquil...
Beam-ends. By dawn Monday the gale was but a whisper, the sun burst through a sky of scudding rain clouds. But passengers on the starboard side, looking out of their windows, could not see the horizon. "It was like looking down a deep well." The deck tilted like a barn roof...
Coach Horween and his gridiron forces took refuge from the fog and rain of Soldiers Field in the Le Baron Briggs Cage yesterday afternoon and there went through the first practice workout in preparation for the season's finale at New Haven on Saturday...
Elected. Fritz Williams, 63, beloved actor who recently played in Rain; to be Shepherd of the Lambs, famed Manhattan theatrical club. Actor Williams headed an independent ticket, defeated wobbly-legged Leon Errol. regular candidate, succeeded the late venerable Thomas A. Wise...
...starvin' on their knays. Ireland at its bist was a hard country-we lived wit the pigs and the geese-we petted thim an' thin we ate thim." Grandfather Tully lived through the Great Famine "a-suckin' the wind and drinkin' the rain on the bogs,'' then migrated to Ohio there to continue his ditching, peddling, champion drinking, yarn-swapping. Whether he was better off in Ohio, who can say-his son's possessions were "a wife, six children, two cows, one hog, a blind mare, and a sense of sad humor...