Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drizzling rain made no difference. The great night had come. In the Chamber there would be delirious hours of such oratory as Frenchmen love to wallow in. Sonorous snatches and smart mots would drift out to the magpie crowd. They parbleu, would not wait to read in the papers that at the climax of this Parliamentary orgy the Chamber had sustained or overthrown the Cabinet boldly formed last fortnight in defiance of party leaders by "The Most American of Frenchmen," driving, militant, iconoclastic Andre Tardieu (TIME...
Indian Summer weather (temp. 83°) sent President Hoover and 19 weekend guests to his Shenandoah National Park camp, hastily reopened. Chilly rain drove them back to the White House for Sunday night supper and music...
Helped by ten other muddy fellows, Halfback Octavius Uansa veered through Ohio State in the rain. Pittsburgh 18, Ohio State...
...thousand people are expected to see the first-year tussle today, a strong contrast to the 1500 who shivered in the rain last year while Harvard scored a 19 to 0 victory...
Ford Tour. Two dozen of the 29 planes which started the 4,800-mi. National Air Reliability Tour of 1929 at Detroit, reached their Detroit goal in a heavy rain last week. Winner of the Edsel Ford Trophy and $2,500 cash was swarthy John Henry Livingston, 31, of Aurora, III, who flew a Wright-motored Waco biplane. Runner-up planes were (in order) : Waco, Ford, Curtiss Condor, Bellanca, Bellanca, Command-Aire, Kreider-Reisner, Spartan, Ford. Although losers yammered about the method of scoring, the Tour did disclose the characteristics of the planes in quick takeoffs, slow landings, load-carrying...