Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...separate phone calls from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union prompted executive officers of each organization to vote in favor of supporting the picket line. They did not confer with management until a day later, while other members walked idly in the rain outside the factory. The more they talked to the strikers and those still on the job, the more confused the issue became. As a result, both executive boards recanted their position and set up a fact-finding committee...
...rest he simply sat, waving, plainly conserving his strength after a week of excitement and strain that would have exhausted many a younger man. His car moved slowly through a rain of colored cloth in the garment district, through new barrages of paper on Fifth Avenue, and on at last back to the Waldorf-Astoria. There for a few days he shut himself away from reporters, crowds and flashbulbs. This week in Chicago and Milwaukee, more parades, salutes and ceremonies awaited the conquering hero...
...RAIN ON THE WIND (312 pp.]-Walter Macken-Macmillan...
...rich Celtic twilight of William Butler Yeats and J. M. Synge has long since faded, but their disciples are still lighting little peat fires on the general bog of contemporary Irish literature. The latest of these, a novel by Walter Macken called Rain on the Wind, never quite bursts into flame; the book carries so much sentimental moisture that it douses its own glim...
...that he can trip the light fantastic tongue of Ireland as well as any man. Yet when he comes to write, the tongue seems to wag the man. Except for a few set pieces, e.g., a vivid description of a storm and some fine, clear passages of Irish speech, Rain on the Wind is a standing example of what happens when Erin goes blah...