Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rain, rain, go away...
...President, meteorologically wise, would ever murmur these words to the heavens. For it is rain that keeps a President and his party in power; drought forebodes political upheaval...
...Rain (Douglas MacLean, Shirley Mason). Pants drop down, men slip on the sidewalks, a goat butts a marine off a battleship, all the principal characters chase themselves around the countryside without once stumbling into a funny situation. The hero marries the heroine...
...circumvent the recent law that all Turkish women must go about with their faces naked. Since the Government of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha has ravished from Turkish womenfolk the veil, Mohammedan "Fundamentalists" in Trebizond adopted last week the umbrella. Determined to protect modesty, they walked in rain or sunshine with only eyes peeping above umbrellas held flat against face and body...
...mile round trip flight inaugurating the London-Cairo-Delhi air service (TIME, Jan. 10). The King-Emperor was graciously pleased to create Lady Maud a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She is the first woman ever to fly so many miles. There had been snow, rain, fog, sandstorms, but not a spare part was needed for the ship...