Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the winds blew and the rains came and they beat upon the earth, which, though it is founded as on a rock, happened to shake violently at the same moment. As if shrugging off the effects of a long, hard winter, the earth twitched, with varying degrees of violence: 1) in a small section around Santa Barbara, Calif, (where last year, to a day, destructive temblors came); 2) over a larger section in the Mediterranean basin, from Italy to Crete and Egypt; 3) and nearer the Equator, at Singapore and in Sumatra. More than 200 humans perished; some...
...restaurant and danced to jazz; others stocked up at the hot-dog stand, or picnicked at rustic tables in the woods; others arrived in evening frocks and white flannels, from dinner parties at Lake Forest or Winnetka. Two thousand spectators sat under a high wooden canopy. (It keeps the rain out and keeps the music within.) Many others sat on the grassy slopes counting stars, spellbound, one night last week, by strains of Puccini...
...principals, each with two seconds, arrived simultaneously at the barracks near Belvedere Palace in the drenching rain at daylight. There were few formalities. The seconds conferred for a moment, examined and loaded two long dueling pistols and stepped off the distance of 15 paces...
...umpire glanced to the right where a huge man in the uniform of a General of the Polish army stood bareheaded in the rain...
...Referendum Sunday" dawned warm, blue-skied, inviting. Millions of Germans went a picnicking, neglected to ballot. A drenching afternoon rain fell alike upon the picnickers and the snug houses of several million more Germans who refused to venture out-even jeered the War veterans riding in open motors through the rain...