Word: downpours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admit-in fact I protest-the "rumpled pants"! I've seen him nearly every day for the past three weeks . . . and not once with "rumpled pants." However, I am told he might have had "rumpled pants" one day, for during a downpour he took off his topcoat to put it around a young woman who had none. Perhaps that was the day. And for that act of chivalry you have publicly proclaimed him a wearer of "rumpled pants"! Tough on Ted 'cause it isn't true. He's most particular about his clothes...
...other polls continued to show a majority cross-section of the U. S. for repeal, Congressional mail ranged 10-to-1 to 1,000-to-1 against. Even discounting half that mail as inspired by such professional rainmakers as Father Coughlin, there were enough sane, sincere letters in the downpour to give shivers to Congressmen, notoriously the most mail-pervious group...
Just before yesterday's downpour the Varsity lacrosse team inflicted on Tufts a 10-0 shutout at the Business School Field, while the Freshman team, in their first taste of competition, lost to the Tufts cubs...
Thursday afternoon during a driving spring downpour, a smoothly functioning Maryland ten smashed through the defense of the team from the North to the score of 11-3. In spite of Maryland's large lead, Coach Skip Stahley was delighted to see his men show considerable improvement over their first showing in Philadelphia...
...five were interviewed at their desolated posts near Falmouth just before a downpour drenched their slick brown uniforms. Scornfully superior to members of the infantry who carried heavy rifles and shiny bayonets, the Harvard doughboys brandished nightsticks as official members of the artillery division 101, Battery...