Word: rains
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Weather is the ideal conversational bromide because there are no two ways about it. A condition of rain, or snow, frigidity, or humidity, leaves no room for argument. While beer at smokers may or may not be a curse, there can be no doubt about the status of a Cambridge winter. Secure behind unanimity of opinion, we feel safe, therefore, in advancing a few editorial remarks on the weather...
Playing in a driving rain on a rink covered with water the Andover hockey seven defeated the second team 3 to 0 in a necessarily slow game at Andover on Saturday afternoon. Williams (2), and Brough scored the goals...
There remain to be mentioned the editorials, which are sound in substance and easy enough in style, though a little perfunctory; Mr. Thacher Nelson's verse, "After Rain," which has some good lines but some inapt words (does a road sough, for instance?); and a thoughtful, well-written article by Mr. Earle Stafford, "Humanity and Sanity," on General von Bernhard's now famous book...
Seldom has it been our fortune to come across a more lucid exposition of the true militarist position than that presented yesterday by Mr. Schenck. His conception of the pacifist position is that "the continued prevalence of rain is due to the pernicious custom of carrying umbrellas." While gloriously and completely missing the fundamental premise of the anti-militarist doctrine, Mr. Schenck has in one simile clearly exposed the basic fallacy of militarism. To the militarist war is an evitable as rain; it being futile to try to prevent rain, we can only resign ourselves to protection against...
...nearly as I can follow the anti-militarists, their arguments amount to this: the continued prevalence of rain is due to the pernicious custom of carrying umbrellas and wearing galoshes and mackintoshes...