Word: raining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth estate now in existence among eastern colleges. It is certainly a definite proof of the hospitality the H. A. A. wishes to extend to the press, and as such is very genuinely appreciated by all those poor souls who had to write their stories in the rain, darkness, cold, or whatever sort of unfavorable condition prevailed, before the erection...
...Little Eva," in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, she reached Manhattan in 1911, was given a small part in Jumping Jupiter, later toured with Julian Eltinge in The Crinoline Girl, with George Arliss in Disraeli (see p. 69). Meteoric was her success as Harlot Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's Rain (1922). Although she missed but 15 performances in Rain's run of some five years, in her last play, Her Cardboard Lover, her performance became dilatory, then apperiodic, then sporadic. Failing to appear on the stage in Milwaukee and St. Louis, she was suspended for two seasons, fined...
...first assembly of the reunited Church of Scotland was held in a garage containing some 12,000 chairs. While rain beat upon the roof the position of moderator of the reunited church was voted to Rev. John White, minister of the Barony of Glasgow...
...every university student pays $13.50 for the support of athletics (and the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.), and can see every home game free because of that. As the footballers scrimmaged, a plane piloted by one Johnnie Howe who was having motor trouble in the rain, sought to land, but flew away when the players came within sight. Wallace A. Wade, University athletic director and football coach, swore out and had served on Pilot Howe a warrant charging him with "recklessly driving a motor vehicle" and scaring his football squads...
...inclemency of the weather yesterday, the H. A. A. will extend the time for applications for tickets to the West Point and Dartmouth games until 6 o'clock this afternoon. This announcement was made early yesterday afternoon, when several hundred undergraduates were forced to stand in the rain waiting to enter their applications...