Word: showering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement were suddenly possessed of a curious emotion. Their eyes raced down the column. "The bride," they read, "wore a gown of white satin trimmed with old rose point lace and cut with a court train. Her veil of tulle was held with orange blossoms and she carried a shower bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley." An amazing picture rose in the minds of the Tory breakfasters-that of a fashionable church, wall-eyed ushers, pretty bridesmaids, a young bridegroom of an excellent Washington family and, amid all the diaphaneity of lace and flowers so dewily described...
...There Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg (Minnesotans), Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, with aids and concomitants including 15 Secret Service men, 12 newspaper men and several photographers boarded the train.* It was hot when they started, but about 4:30, the train ran into a shower. Once in the mountains, the temperature was less and less offensive. In the diner, Mr. and Airs. Coolidge ate alone, with Secretary Kellogg and Senator Lenroot across the aisle. Mr. Coolidge had a two-inch broiled steak, a cup of jellied consomme, toasted raisin bread and hot coffee. Mrs. Coolidge...
Some took a shower. Some drove automobiles in a general northerly direction. A few of the more intelligent paid ten cents and studied on the benches in the subway. Some looked longingly at the Charles, but realized that they had no place in which to take the necessary cleansing shower afterward. Everyone agreed, in Mark Twain's phrase, that something ought to be done about the weather, but no two opinions coincided...
...riot began when the Freshmen sent a shower of logs from the windows of the dormitories ostensibly in an attempt to break as many electric lights as possible in the Oval. Their efforts were largely successful and, lacking further diversion along the same line, a convocation ensued which resulted in the building of a bonfire. In order to supply fuel, the venerable "Freshman Fence", dear to the memory of Yale graduates and esteemed as one of the traditions of the college, was torn from its historic position and was used piecemeal to feed the flames...
...railway line. She had written an autobiography-a simple story of her spiritual life. She was credited with saying that "God would permit her to remain on earth until the end of time"; that she "would spend her Heaven on earth doing good"; that she would "let fall a shower of roses." After these things was she forgotten by that great mass-the outside world...