Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taichow in the Province of Chekiang, a living frog in a glass jar was paraded through the streets. On all sides people kowtowed, prayed to the frog for rain...
...chill westerly wind and heavy rain ?bleak January weather, according to the notions of the Northern Hemisphere ?prevailed one fine July morning as the U. S. fleet in two detachments approached the harbors of Sydney, New South Wales, and Melbourne, Victoria...
...Scene of Rain, famed play which is now running in London...
Women's Western. Rain-sopped women stood waiting in the Riverside Country Clubhouse (Riverside, 111.). Entered to them a dusky-haired, comely young woman choking back a smile. The gathering chuckled, cackled, congratulated the young woman, then stood quiet while a chairwoman gave her a tall, slender silver cup. That night the young woman, Mrs. Silvan L. Reinhart (nee Elaine Rosenthal), of Hubbard Woods, Ill., discussed with her husband, "Spider" Reinhart, onetime Yale end, the ups, downs, ins and outs whereby she had successfully defended her Women's Western Golf Championship, through rain and wind, against a field...
Because of the rain, the field (at Hurlingham) was mud, a pony slipped; because of the slip, Captain J. B. Dening of the British Army's polo team fell on his poll and suffered a slight concussion of the brain. No one, however, went so far as to suggest that it was because of this lamentable accident that the U. S. team won by 6 goals to 4 the second and deciding game of their series (TiME, June 29) against the British. The former was better mounted, more vigorous. Through the gray drizzle of the afternoon, ambassadors and noblemen...