Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came the two royal landaus and Edward of Wales was whirled off through a drizzly rain and an ovation unprecedented even for him. On the balcony at Buckingham Palace his perennial "shyness" was again observed; many Britons would have pledged their hearts blood that his uneasy fussing with the busby was genuine nervousness...
Meanwhile Marshall Petain was ordering his soldiers to squat down on their present position and wait until spring, when the present torrential rains will cease. Already more rain has fallen during October than the average total precipitation for both October and November. In the French sector, every road is a bog, every valley is a swamp...
When the World Series splashed to its rain-streaked, dramatic finish on Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, a handful of distinguished foreigners, with rain spurting in gentle rivers from the brims of their felt hats, left the field and proceeded to their hotels having learnt for the moment enough of how things are done in the U. S. They were in Pittsburgh with exactly the opposite idea-to show the U. S. how certain things are done in Europe. They had come to attend the opening of the Carnegie International Exhibition...
Today's practice started out of doors, but rain drove the men are the base ball cage early in the afternoon. The work was light, and the season consisted chiefly of a long blackboard talk. Henry Bjorkman, captain of the 1924 eleven and former All-American end as the coaching staff in preens for the Harvard game...
Third Game was delayed for a day by rain, harassed when it finally began by wind and cold, which chilled President Coolidge and pinched his face. After half a dozen innings of erratic baseball, Manager Harris called his pitcher, Alex Ferguson, out of the game and sent in midget Nemo Leibold to bat for him. Nemo, a lefthander, shuffled and glared until Pitcher Kremer ( Pittsburgh) walked him. Poker-faced Goose Goslin stepped to the plate, swung high, swung low, like a man who would hit at anything. Pittsburgh outfielders spread out. Canny Goslin bunted. Traynor hit a sacrifice...