Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lined the streets over which it was announced the President was to pass on his automobile trip to Southern Indiana across Louisville's new $5,000,000 municipal bridge (then unopened to the public-but since thrown open to traffic, Oct. 31) and likewise throngs waited in the rain for the President on his scheduled route to the Brown Hotel. Plans were changed so that these routes were but partly used, the bridge was not crossed and thousands of those who made it possible for Kentucky to give Mr. Hoover a 170,000 majority last November, stood...
...Lady Astor, famed for Parliamentary courage, canceled an engagement to fly with 100 members of both Houses of Parliament last week in Britain's new passenger dirigible R-101. Into the Noble Lady's breach stepped Labor's Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, M.P. Then rain canceled the flight...
Forced inside by a cold, drizzling, New England rain Harvard's football squad sought shelter in the Briggs baseball cage yesterday afternoon in opening its final week of practice of the 1929 season...
Head Coach Mal Stevens called off the practice scheduled for today because of the heavy rain, which poured a good part of the afternoon and instead he ordered the blue squad to report to the Y Club for a skull practice, which lasted about two hours. The formations and plays used by Harvard this season were explained to the wearers of the Blue. Coach Adam Walsh, who scouted the Harvard-Michigan game at Ann Arbor, Michigan, explained in detail the strong and weak points of the Crimson line and also discussed the Harvard backs...
...handling of the chorus scenes is outstanding. Even the uncolored half of the picture, especially the dance accompanying "Singing in the Rain", makes effective use of shadows and silhouettes; and the closing scenes, employing an enlarged screen, are among the few good bits of technicolor the movies have thus far offered. "In Orange Blossom Tinte", with its beauty of color and brilliant shots from strange angles, particularly makes one realize that artistic photography did not altogether pass out with silent pictures...