Word: raining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean east of the West Indies fortnight ago a mass of hot air began to rise to cooler levels, made heavy rain clouds. Strong Southwest winds hit them, piled them up into a storm, drove them forward, spun them round & round. Out of this counterclockwise rotation with a deep low pressure area at its core was gradually born a tropical hurricane which with a yell of fury headed northwest toward the U. S. coast line 1,000 miles away. As it skirted south of Bermuda it kicked up enormous seas, sent Bermudians scurrying to cover, kept...
Wheeling north, the hurricane struck Washington the worst blow the capital has experienced in a generation. The barometer dropped to 28.94 in. as the storm centre passed nearby. Federal employes were let out early to scamper home to safety ahead of the storm. Six inches of rain fell in 24 hours. All street lights were out of commission. Venerable trees were blasted down around the Capitol and the White House. The Potomac River climbed over the Speedway...
...Forest Hills, the stanch disinclination of a slim British Sunday-school teacher to play on Sunday, and four days of rain, had delayed the tournament a full week. When sturdy Helen Jacobs, whose muscles were as solid as her opponent's convictions, finally took the court against Dorothy Round, who had beaten her twice in England and even won a set from Helen Wills, the slow moist turf made a perfect surface for the slow, sly Jacobs chops. Her victory, 6-4, 5-7, 5-2, set the stage for a final that promised to be boringly familiar. Even...
...Jefferson and Rose Coghlan played to rowdy frontier audiences, and where the Passion Play was given in stereopticon pictures. The contractor Brothers McFarlane built it in 1878 on the site of a horse corral. When the mining boom spread away to west & south, mountain rats took Central City over. Rain streaked the Rhenish landscape on the Opera House curtain and the gaudy murals done by a forgotten painter named Massman. In 1931 the McFarlane heirs gave the sorry pile to Denver University as a landmark of Colorado's brawling past, past enough for Coloradoans to be proud...
...little room up under the roof smoking meditatively and wondering at the beauty of a girl's profile against a shaded lamp. She was reading Eleanor Wylie's poetry half aloud. Her lips were wet, and the dampness in the air wove her black hair into ringlets. Outside silver rain was falling softly through the blackness in Bay State Road, and the poplars were glad for the rain...