Word: rained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editor of the poems leaves a blank wherever the absence of an innocent word might imply the presence of a naughtier one. The result should be a good lesson to some of our scurrilousminded censors. Here is a mild example: Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle up to his - And never went there again. HARVEY C. LEECH...
...some felt other than beaver, a good inch thick, covering the shoulders and back completely, and coming well over the horse's crupper; it was also well turned up in front and at the sides, so that one had no need of a cloak against the rain, and in hot weather it was as good as a little house...
...purify" the Place de la Concorde. From German Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) and Coblenz the last Belgian and French troops marched out last week. There were bonfires on the Rhine hillsides, but no expectoration. Rhinelanders waited until the last troop trains had gone, then young folk danced in rain wet streets, old folk breathed an earnest Gott Sei Dank! The Second Zone of Allied Occupation was free...
Mayor Newbegin of Tacoma was glad he remembered that fact because Tacoma (pop. 110.000 ) badly needed light, badly needed power. Cushman Dam which supplies water for the city-owned plant was dangerously low. Where four inches of rain had fallen last October, this October fell less than one inch. Abandoned private steam plants were prepared for operation. Housewives had to be told to cut down on current. Only every other street light burned at night. Electrical signs were shut off. The lights on the tower of the city hall went dark for the first time in 30 years...
...longer the same man," said Dr. de Gennes to reporters waiting in the rain. "What lassitude! The kidneys of Monsieur le President du Conseil have not functioned for 18 hours. Nothing can save him now except a miracle...