Word: rainstorm
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...begun to suspect a sharp personal rift between the President and his onetime favorite Brain Truster were surprised to learn that Critic Moley had been taken for an overnight cruise to Chesapeake Bay aboard the new Presidential yacht. As the Potomac sailed back up the Potomac in a pelting rainstorm next day. wiseacres wondered whether Editor Moley was talking up to President Roosevelt in person as he had talked in his editorials and speeches, whether the onetime Columbia professor was preparing to replace Louis Howe as the Boss Man's much-needed...
...Queen scowled more than ever, reminding Alice of nothing so much as the sky just before a great rainstorm starts. "Marx! Yes, I saw him in "A Night at the Opera". Is the book as funny as the stateroom scene...
...HOUSE ON THE ROOF-Mignon G. Eberhart-Doubleday, Doran ($2). The usual rainstorm, with better-than-usual characterizations, including an aging singer, a nice young girl, a nice young man, by an increasingly popular young author...
Appearing like worms on the sidewalk after a rainstorm, petty publications are deluging the students with adolescent tripe. The appearance of a second number of the Yale, Harvard, Princeton Guide gives evidence that these parasites can exist and, in fact, are right now likely of becoming a permanent fixture...
...Bill") Taylor as navigator, Kingsford-Smith flew unerringly 1,700 mi. over the Pacific towards his first stop?Suva, Fiji Islands. There he was delayed a week by storms ahead. On the 3,200-mi. water jump to Honolulu Kingsford-Smith, fumbling in the cockpit during a rainstorm, accidentally knocked down the wing flaps. The plane whipped into a stall, spun down 8.000 ft. into the swirling blackness before he could bring it out. Unnerved but undiscouraged. the aviators swooped into Pearl Harbor to complete in 25 hours the second leg of the world's most hazardous over-water...