Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon of Oct. 16, 1781, was cloudy. The sun sank sullen and red. With the night, came winds and rain. Stretched in a semicircle about Yorktown, American troops under General Washington lay in their earthworks, some putting back into service the guns of two redoubts that had been captured and spiked by a British assault under Lieutenant Colonel Abercrombie in the forenoon but recovered later in a counterassault. About 300 yards away lay the British, in the inner circle of Yorktown's earthwork defenses. In the town, Lord Charles Cornwallis took counsel with his officers. North of them...
...windy, creaky, rain-bitten house...
...thousand people of Duluth stood in drizzling rain for hours waiting the arrival of the young Baron, en route from Winnipeg to Chicago. As the trained steamed in, pipers played in his honor, many youngsters waved the Union Jack. Renfrew told Mayor Snively: "I am delighted with the reception I am receiving everywhere in the United States, and especially with this tremendous crowd that waited out in the rain...
...RAIN-Jeanne Eagels proving that the ways of God to woman cannot always be justified...
...play will prompt in lowbrows the gnawing of baffled discontent. They will want to know what it is all about. The so-called intellegenzia will find in it flashes of finesse and faithful beauty. The rest is rain and thunder of a very cloudy evening...