Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boris cast an anxious eye out of the S Street window. It looked like rain. Boris is a Serbian who lost his last name in the war. He works as valet for a big, thickset, friendly-faced engineer whose friends and helpers all call him The Chief...
Chief Justice Taft's hand was the first to give President Hoover's a congratulatory squeeze. Mr. Coolidge, without rising from his seat, reached up and did likewise. The President turned back to the public, seen and unseen, and began his speech (see col. 2). Wind-blown rain dampened his hair, clotted his eyebrows. He shook his head impatiently to get the wet off his face. The fringes of the crowd melted away. Indians in full war paint (friends and race relatives of the Vice President) retreated to shelter under the Capitol's main portico. The President...
...White House, the President and first lady hurried upstairs to change their rain-soaked clothes and forestall head colds. They ate some luncheon alone...
Yesterday's warm weather together with last night's brief rain, broke up the ice on the Charles to such an extent that the University crews may take to the river today for the first time since about December...
...Russell, the stud groom of Edward of Wales's stable stood at one side of the straw-covered arena of the Leicester House Repository at Melton Mowbray in the heart of England's hunting country. Rain was drumming on the roof and a dozen policemen strove to hold back the crowd. Inside the rows of boxes around the ring were jammed to suffocation and smartly dressed women clung perilously to railings. The Prince of Wales's 12 hunters were being sold...