Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fish. A drizzly rain fell over New York harbor at dusk one day last month. A trim little 30-foot cabin sportabout nosed out of the Kill van Kull, turned north across the Upper Bay. Aboard were Manhattan Broker Stuyvesant Fish, owner; Mrs. Fish; their two sons, and Captain A. Phillip Larsen. Mr. Fish was bringing his new yacht, the Restless, up from its builders, American Car and Foundry Co. at Wilmington, Del. From the Brooklyn shore a U. S. patrol boat slid out in pursuit of the Restless. Hard by the Statue of Liberty, the U. S. craft fired...
...after another seven days comes the last appearance this year of that popular favorite Reading Period. Whatever that may mean to the individual, the Vagabond hopes it concords with his own pious wish that even if there are thirty-one days in May, it can't produce as much rain as April did with only thirty...
...Wednesday Harvard played the William and Mary team and won all six singles matches handily. The doubles were halted by rain. Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29 was the only one forced to go three sets, beating Wiggins...
Ignoring the advice of physicians and the pleading of friends, Mr. Herrick at the funeral of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (TIME, April 1) had taken off his silk hat, tramped more than two miles in the rain, caught a cold which broke down his long precarious health and killed him within five days...
...many months after the Haig funeral, King-Emperor George V caught the pneumonia of which he nearly died, while officiating hatless in the rain before Britain's Cenotaph, on last Armistice...