Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City of Philipopolis, onetime capital of the ancient independent country of Rumelia, was laid utterly in ruins. Some 80,000 families have now no shelter. The enormous tobacco warehouses crumpled like smashed cigar boxes. A heavy rain destroyed the value of their stocks, prime, world-famed Turkish leaf...
...drenching rain, comes the gypsy Nubi. And as she comes into the happy Mendez household, happiness goes out the window. For father, son and serving man in that happy Spanish household find that there is a certain something about Nubi that,--well, disturbs them. It takes one act of this play to get the said Nubi onto the stage, and two more before purity, mother love, jealousy and much more rout...
Entirely frivolous: Funny Face, Good News, Rain or Shine, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin...
Once married and supplied with funds, Adventurer Zubkov neglected his Princess and began in Berlin a boozily epic career. He playfully but painfully tweaked the noses of tardy waiters. He smashed and exploded bottles of champagne just for the fun of dousing perfect strangers with effervescent golden rain. . . . And very often Alexander Dvorjanin Zubkov roistered with from six to ten ladies of the evening until high noon...
...ground that he has no valid passport. Since then he has been in Brussels, Belgium, still wineing and womening without stint, but under threat of momentary expulsion. Thus a problem has been set before doting Princess Victoria-where shall her Zubkov now roister, tweak, and make champagne-rain...