Word: rains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Back to the Army, again. Out o' the cold an' the rain...
...Soon after riding on a white horse to his inaugural on a miserable day, General William Henry ("Old Tippecanoe") Harrison got caught in the rain while out walking, died of pneumonia one month after taking office...
...Christmas Eve lowering clouds hung over Seoul and gusts of bone-chilling rain lashed the streets, drenching the policemen who stood guard with slung carbines outside the Assembly. Inside, the sit-down strike continued. Opposition Assemblymen slept beside their desks. In a seat near the rostrum, tiny Park Soon Chun, the only woman member of the Democratic Party in the Assembly, tiredly wiped her glasses...
...Cold Wind and the Warm transfers to the stage S. N. Behrman's memories of Jewish neighborhood life in Worcester, Mass. The author of many urbane comedies of ideas, Behrman here wives farce with feeling. If his characters in earlier plays (Biography, Rain from Heaven) seemed not so much human beings as assorted points of view, in The Cold Wind they are often not so much human beings as pieces on a racial chessboard. And in the many places where Behrman commemorates traditional Jewish characters enacting standard roles his play is both warm and entertaining...
...rain, clouds, soldiers bent upon...