Word: rainstorm
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...valuable horses had been stolen, sold to a Negro for $20; 2) The local light company refused to furnish illumination on credit, the fodder merchants to furnish fodder; 3) After putting up the tent, the roustabouts struck, left; 4) The band followed the roustabouts; 5) A rainstorm came, razed the tent; 6) The tent manufacturer and the sheriff came and took the tent away; 7) The lions, hungry, broke out of their cage, went to the ball park, slumbered in left field; 8) The S. P. C. A. and the sheriff jailed Robert Kent, partner...
...blinding rainstorm, in a gale strong enough to rip a ton of masonry from the grey and gothic west front of famed York Minster, Edward of Wales last week boarded the S. S. Kenilworth Castle at Southampton Docks, bound for Africa to resume the big game hunt which was interrupted 13 months ago by the critical illness of George V. Announced objective: the shooting of a two-horned rhinoceros, two or three male lions (H. R. H.'s previous bag contained only lionesses...
...Conn., June 10--In the face of a driving rainstorm Saturday afternoon, Coach Brown's heavy Crimson crew started out from the New London Bridge with ten racing strokes on the first official time trial of the season over the four mile course...
...President Coolidge had prepared himself for a trip to Philadelphia. But he paused on the White House threshold, retreated, waited. From a window he watched a tornado which had come whooping up the Potomac from Alexandria, Va., at 92 m.p.h., to lay waste a strip of Washington. A crashing rainstorm followed the wind. When at last the elements permitted, the President set out for Union Station. The streets clanged with ambulances, fire trucks, police wagons. President Coolidge learned in due course that Washington's total damage exceeded a million; that Mrs. Jane Carter, Negress, had been killed; that scores...
Playing through a serious rainstorm over the windswept Knollwood course at Lake Bluff, near Chicago, the University of Chicago's "Maroon" team slashed drives from wet tees, mashied onto muggy greens, sank putts into brimful cups, to win the Big 10* golf championship last week. Best golf for the day was played by Ralph Kunstadter, University of Illinois, with two rounds...