Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instead to a report by Secretary Hoover, who returned to Washington. From New Orleans came reports that business was as usual, that the danger to the city had been exaggerated by a Nationwide, sensation-seeking press. Newspapers were accused of having published pictures of New Orleans streets, flooded by rain, of labeling these pictures as "Mississippi flood scenes." Nevertheless, citizens of New Orleans waited tensely as the flood crest, slow as a snail but powerful as the sea, moved closer to their city...
...Children do more to determine the length of popularity of a piece of music than does any other factor," said Wendall Hall, composer of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", "Underneath the Mellow Moon". "Land of my Sunset Dreams", and other popular musical selections, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
...Music seems to run in cycles," continued the entertainer. "We have had the Hawaiian cycle and the Blues cycle, the one in which oriental types of music were most popular, and then the verse type, the one in which 'It Ain't Gonna Rain No More' was popular. Present day popular music may be classed in what is known as the 'Hokum type...
...baseball game between the Harvard and New Hampshire nines, scheduled to be played yesterday, has been postponed on account of rain to 4 o'clock this afternoon...
...safely announced at last that the season has turned for good. Rain has become the mild, innocuous shower bath that characterizes spring downpours, the baseball nines are in the field, the crews crowd the river, and the Vagabond has purchased a pair of vivid socks. Such indications are not to be scorneu, but the skeptic may definitely convince himself of the season by noticing his fellows during the lectures. Despite the best intentions, every eye wanders to the windows, attention follows the eyes, and then goes farther afield to the mountains, shore and great open spaces in general...