Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the day for the Grand Parade came, rain began to fall. Assembling in the downpour, 1,350 veterans marched the 21 blocks over the scheduled route; 2,500 more followed in automobiles. All of them might have ridden if they had cared to, but most of them preferred to march, rain or no rain...
General Pershing and Governor Cox, of Massachusetts, reviewed the parade of the veterans. While rain fell, continuously, heavily, old men marched, marched...
...played The Star Spangled Banner. Then the pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church made an invocation. Then Senator Thomas J. Walsh rose and spoke the momentous words of notification. It was Mr. Davis' moment. He stepped up to the amplifiers and began. At the same moment a heavy rain began to fall, wetting the speaker and the listeners impartially...
...winds arose and the rain fell and the Sokie River flooded forth over the Onwentsia Golf Course at Lake Forest, Ill. The draggled women who were playing there for the Western Championship cleaned out their lockers at the clubhouse, bundled their powder puffs, dry stockings and extra hairpins over to the Shore Acres Club, farther up Lake Michigan, held their second and third round matches on its higher ground...
...discuss internal policy. Benito was not invited; he therefore did not permit the meeting to take place. The Opposition became livid, published a manifesto in which Benito's act was described as "a new demonstration of the policy of repressing every liberty pursued by the present Government." While rain and hailstones swept over Milan, Piacenza, Mantua, Novara and Brescia - Bergamo and Verona experienced, for the first time in memory, a Summer snowstorm. The Italian Tyrol was so cold that people were forced to wear furs. Throughout northern Italy the rivers and lakes overflowed, causing much damage to crops...