Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weather Bureau...
When the curtain went up on LaBohème that night in Philadelphia's Academy of Music, Tenor Caruso & Co. found that wintry weather had cut their audience to fewer than 200. So they decided to do La Bohème up a little differently...
...There is a saying around Ebbets Field that if it isn't raining hard enough to make the ink run on Dodger tickets, then the game cannot he called. So, bolstered by many years of mudding for dear old Rickey, the Brooklyn entry wandered out into nor easter weather today and waded to a double victory over the complacent Braves...
There will undoubtedly be much sniveling in the eminently fair Boston press today to the effect that the game should have been called in about the third inning. In this I cannot concur. Once the three umpires had decided that the weather was not bad enough to call the second game, they had no reason to call it after it got under way, and the Braves found themselves eight runs behind...
...could tell, the weather did not turn suddenly worse in the third inning; it just got slowly darker until by 5:15 you could see virtually nothing. Once the game started, the umpires also had a sort of moral obligation to continue play. They felt five innings could be played, and they were right...