Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From 3:00 to 7:00 through the heat the multitude gathered into the sylvan theatres near the Washington Monument; the great drought within them was mocked by a downpour of rain. A prayer, a speech or two, and the pounding, pounding rain brought the meeting to a close...
...cold, wearing goggles to keep his sight from being extinguished by the brine, followed by an Admiralty tug, began at 8 o'clock one night last week to swim from Cape Gris Nez. He swam all night. At dawn a patchy fog, a westerly wind, a small rain. He swam on. At 11:30 in the morning he was a mile and a half from Dover. His trainer turned a drawn countenance upon the party...
...moment later the Cathedral doors swung open, and into the rain stepped a padded figure. A strange black hat was on its head. Black whiskers covered its face, and skirts the rest...
...Conclusion won the qualifying round from the babblers with a 78. Up stepped lank Dorothy Klotz of Chicago; the Conclusion settled upon her 4 and 3. Up stepped Helen Payson of Portland, Me., a nervy novice; the Conclusion finally rested at the 18th green, 1 up. Along came pouring rain and sure-putting Mrs. H. D. Sterrett of Hutchinson, Kan. The Conclusion wavered before those pitiless putts that streaked for the hole over yards of squashy turf. Near the tenth tee grew a four-leaf clover. It was picked, pensively. Near the 18th cup lay Mrs. Sterrett's ball...
...motor the 26 mi. between Paris and Corbell; not so pleasant on a rainy day; still less pleasant to walk. But to swim from Corbell to Paris in the dirty brown Seine, famed swimming-pool for suicides-to swim at 2 in the morning, with the water algid, and rain stabbing the darkness...