Word: raining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took two pieces of corrugated iron, leaned them against a tree and that is my home and the children's. We have no clothes presentable. "For 24 hours I couldn't even make tea for my babies. We have no tea or sugar either. But when the rain cleared and I decided to go to the city hall where things were distributed, I was embarrassed beyond words. The Red Cross clerk insolently asked me "What do you want, chow?" I was so ashamed that I'd preferred to die." Now those people are sensitive, they have...
...that is just what this 'sidewalk-reared Prince' has done. He served us our first dish as we sat in the rain at Albany and listened to his acceptance speech. And he has kept us on a steady diet of crow ever since...
Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, Blackbirds of 1928, George White's Scandals, Earl Carroll's Vanities, Good Boy, Billie, Chee Chee, Paris...
There were about 20,000 people in the quiet stands; a cold rain dripped from the smutty sky and early autumn mist closed in around Meadow Brook. Airplanes rose suddenly from invisible fields and flew low across the enormous billiard table of turf; a Scoreboard said "Argentine-6; U. S.-6." The gong sounded for the eighth chukker and two polo teams cantered in from the northeast corner of the field...
...their necks and the last period started. Two minutes later, number one on the U. S. four, William Averell Harriman, carried the ball up from midfield and scored through a tangle at the goal. Five and a half minutes later the people in the stands stood cheering in the rain because the U. S., after trailing at 2-5, had won, by a score of 7-6, the first game in the series intended to decide the "Championship of the Americas...