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Word: rains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RAIN-When a missionary suicides over a South Sea harlot there is bound to be drama. So much of it is there that Bain has displayed a " Standing Room Only" sign for over 5, year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Oct. 15, 1923 | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

...bright spots, a rather dull attempt to anyone not historically interested in the development of the revue. The bright spots include Peggy and Cortez' exceptional dancing, a low-comedy picnic -Keep Off the Grass, Collier and Bernard as Mr. and Mrs. Davidson in a burlesque of Rain* But the funniest thing in the show is a would-be serious ballet dealing with an Orchid, a Flame and Two Butterflies. This would furnish a likely subject for a W. E. Hill cartoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 8, 1923 | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

...Thls Is the third burlesque of Rain of the season. Others have been included in Artists and Models and in the now defunct Newcomers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 8, 1923 | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

...other hand, they say that Rain kicked endlessly around the offices until Sam Harris perceived the million dollar watermarks behind the typing. Play-readers who passed it up are still wondering how they retained their jobs. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Shaggy Genius | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

...morning of the eclipse, faint clouds may have spoiled some of the Einstein plates. A far more serious difficulty was encountered in the Indians who at first were determined to prevent the observations, thinking them some sort of a religious rite which might offend the native rain god. On being assured of the good intentions of the observers, however, the natives became even more objectionable in their desire to look through the telescopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN VIEW SUN ECLIPSE ON EXPEDITION | 10/2/1923 | See Source »

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