Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Londoners instinctively headed for Buckingham Palace, to stand for hours in a cold drizzle of rain, despite the fact that none of the royal family was in residence there. Others gathered outside 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister's house, outside Clarence House, Elizabeth and Philip's home, outside Queen Mary's Marlborough House and dark, rambling St. James's Palace, where the new Queen's accession would be proclaimed. They were not waiting for a show; no pageantry or display was expected that night. They just felt that was the place...
...Parisian beggars storm Notre Dame's doors, Laughton climbs to the roof and hurls huge building blocks down on the crowd as he howls with maniacal laughter. For a finale, he overturns a cauldron of molten metal into the gutters leading to the cathedral's gargoyle rain-spouts. It blows onto the mob while Laughton executes his fiendish victory dance around the cauldron. For Charles Adams fans, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a must-see--for anyone else it is still a classic film...
...narrow streets, and agents grinding around those narrow streets in battered open cars. It has Bogart, still remarkable when he palms a cigarette, and Bergman, equally remarkable when she does nothing at all. It is the granddaddy of a long line of similar coat-collar-up in the rain movies, many with the same people, many with better plots. It can still hold its head up with its offspring...
According to the Times the investigators replied to all inquiries that "The city is being sued by upstate farmers for rainmaking. We gotta find out, did we make rain or didn...
Howell was one of the first American scientists to experiment with the production of rain by means of precipitating moisture in the atmosphere with dry ice of silver iodide crystals...