Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Have you," meant Dr. Smith, "yet got sense enough to come in out of the rain without a yank from your mamma's apronstrings...
...tossed about, while the Greek captain attempted to put back toward Corinth or one of the neighboring sheltered coves. . . . Eventually we were landed on a lonely stretch of shore, 15 miles from the nearest village. There was not a house or protection of any kind to be had. Rain and hail pelted us for hours. . . . At last one of our party walked to the nearest hamlet where there was a telephone, and an automobile was sent out by the Near East Relief at Corinth...
...Unfair Mission?Put Out at 5 A. M., Rain or Shine...
Operations amid the rain-soaked sloughs of Riffland (TIME, Nov. 16 et ante) were featured recently by the surrender of 800 tribal families to the French, in the region of Ouezzan, northwest of Fez. French communiques stated that the power of Abd-el-Krim, dauntless Riffian leader, is rapidly waning, as the Semadjas and other powerful tribes are submitting to the French. In the New Republic, U. S. weekly review, Poet Witter Bynner* wrote as follows...
...Brooklyn, a fish peddler (Giacomo Puleo) and a laundry-wagon driver (William Levine) left their horses uncovered in a storm. Haled to court they were sent to stand coatless, hatless, for 15 minutes in the winter rain. Magistrate Golden said: "Now you know what it feels like...