Word: raining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late brother Leo in 1907. He was 17. The act was called "The Juggling Kids." In vaudeville his wife, whom he divorced for infidelity two years ago, used to act as property man. His first big success was achieved with Peggy Hopkins Joyce in the Vanities of 1923. Rain or Shine, his first starring vehicle, opened in 1928, ran two years on Broadway. He has four children - Joe (17), Josephine (18), Doris (12), Leo (7). He is a Roman Catholic. He always likes to have a midget living with him and in his shows. He thinks they are lucky...
...distance record. (Old record: 66.7 mi., Martin Schempp, from Elmira.) Dick du Pont set out next day to go Mehlhose one better. Also starting from Rockfish Gap, he passed Mehlhose's landing place, kept on soaring, crossed the Maryland line, started to head into Pennsylvania when rain & fog forced him back to Frederick, Md. Distance: 122^ mi.-14 mi. short of the world record . . . from Rockfish Gap to the Pennsylvania line. made from Wasserkuppe by Germany's late Guenther Groenhoff. Elated over the possibility that "Amer-ica's Wasserkuppe" had been discovered in the Blue Ridge, Jack...
...policemen. People went to the theatre. When they got out they found the parade still going on. Some Chinese waitresses and a group of artificial flower makers tagged the monster procession as it died. Magically the crowds melted. Street cleaners hitched up their belts at midnight as a light rain began to fall...
...ground that a long drought had baked iron-hard. And due sometime next month was a dread enemy: the scourge of locusts trying to repeat their last year's feat of eating clean two northern provinces. Last week brought the farmers a good turn on both counts. Rain fell and softened the hard ground. And the Ministry of Agriculture got under way early against the locusts by announcing $5,000,000 worth of contracts for 12,000 mi. of sheet-iron locust barriers...
...Rain or shine That Sweet Somebody Thinks I'm somebody, My Pal, my Buddy, My Jesus...