Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelve matches in the singles trials for the Jackson Cup were played yesterday on the Jarvis courts, and not one of the seeded men participated. Rain did not interfere with the playing yesterday, some of the courts even being dusty, but the strong wind made lobbing out of the question, and even affected slow services. During the entire afternoon men would delay their service in order to play the point if possible in a lull in the wind...
Near Brussels on a field converted by heavy rain into a morass, 11 balloons (entries in the James Gordon Bennett cup race) tugged and tore at their moorings, buffeted by a high wind. Weather bureaus warned that the tempest, which was accompanied by lightning, would continue. Officials sought to postpone the competition but found their rules inflexible...
...RAIN-A play focusing its spotlight on the divergent evils of sex repression and sex delinquency. The locale is in the South Seas; the star, Jeanne Eagels. CHILDREN OF THE MOON-An eerie drama of the singular type ot insanity, moon madness. Also a philippic against the over-possessive mother. Brilliant performances by Henrietta Crosman, Beatrice Terry, Florence Johns. SUN UP-Wherein a pipe-smoking virago of the Carolina mountains perceives that patriotism and motherhood overshadow feud hatred. SEVENTH HEAVEN - From the sewer life of Paris to a garret honeymoon. Helen Menken, the War, and a long black whip provide...
...Birkenhead: "Weekending at Locust Valley, L.I., the guest of Paul D. Crayath (attorney), I played golf at Piping Rock with Percy R. Pyne, II, Harold S. Vanderbilt and another man. I wore a baby blue sweater and long dark trousers and smoked a fat cigar. At the ninth hole rain overtook...
...MacManamy makes a rather appealing heroine and is especially good when called upon by the author for tears. Since he requires her to weep fairly consistently through the last three acts she has a rather successful evening. Not since Rain has such an aqueous deluge, been the arresting feature of the action...