Word: rains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toul, in Nancy and around Pont ä-Mouson, we were bombed on every clear night and shelled occasionally to vary the monotony. Later, in the Meuse Argonne offensive, bombs were our nightly bedtime story rain or shine. I never heard of any of our immediate outfit suffering any bodily ills from a bomb and Nancy, in particular, was a well-curried town. Metz was only 20 miles away and Nancy caught it both coming and going, the bombers dropping a part of their load on the way out and dumping the remainder on their way back. They did considerable property...
...miles long, made more exciting by five unavoidably sharp curves. Last week the completed Normandie, drawing 40 ft. of water and with the French Line Chairman Marcel Olivier aboard, was shoved off by ten frantically churning tugs while Bretons, gathered from miles around, cheered and whooped in the rain. Hardly had the Normandie cleared the first buoy when driving mists shut her out of sight from shore. Most ticklish moment came when she was eased past the sunken wreck of the Beignon. Then the four largest electric motors in the world began to turn the Normandie's four propellers...
...hours before this year's celebration. Father Washington's statue gleamed in a soft rain. City workers telephoned Mrs. Tubman, suggested that it would be useless to set up their public address system. Chided Mrs. Tubman: "No. go ahead, God has always taken care...
...wife who sets out to reform an erring husband by the time-honored method of flirting with another man, finds the other man more attractive than the husband, runs away with him. And it represents Tallulah Bankhead's third time at bat this season (previous plays: Dark Victory, Rain). While Something Gay affords Miss Bankhead ample opportunity to cuss and cuddle, its dialog is so low-pressure, its scheme so trivial that critics sorrowfully had to credit her with another strikeout. Actress Bankhead is evidently having as much difficulty finding a proper vehicle for her lush talents...
...rain and wind yesterday the race between the Varsity crews to see which was the number one boat was called off and the same anomalous position of having two equal Varsity eights continues...