Word: swithin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest surprise in the book is the durable quality of the writing of John Galsworthy. Placed alongside the other prizewinners, the story of Swithin Forsyte, from Caravan (1925), is fast, matter-of-fact and honestly funny...
...Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain: St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nae mair. Last week, 1,083 years after St. Swithin's death,* the ancient verse was quoted again. On many Americans rain had fallen on St. Swithin's Day (July 15) and most of the time since...
...Manhattan, in the first fortnight after St. Swithin's Day, rain fell eleven days. New Jersey was soggy after the worst floods in four decades. At Little Falls, the Passaic River washed out a railroad bridge, leaving only the tracks swaying above the swollen current (see cut). New Orleans sloshed through its rainiest July ever (14 inches plus). When a man in Minneapolis ran out of ice cubes, his mother-in-law dashed into the backyard, picked up a handful of hailstones. It was no legend, but a fact, that the U.S. had had unusual weather since the hottest...
...last request of nature-loving Swithin, 9th-Century Bishop of Winchester, was for burial under the eaves of his church, where footsteps and raindrops would fall on his humble grave. A century later the clergy, having erected a new edifice, decided to move him indoors. One legend says this so infuriated St. Swithin that it rained for 40 days after...
Rain & Shine. The Allies were still fighting weather as well as the enemy. When Saint Swithin's day turned up rainy (traditionally indicating 40 more days of rain), the soaked, muddy Allied troops were unimpressed; it could not forecast any worse than what they had already gone through. Actually, the weather cleared early this week...