Word: rainswept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty amateur organizations competed, each presenting a one-act play. One group from Denver gave a horrific vignette by Eugene O'Neill in which a white couple and a Negro are shown adrift on a raft in tropic seas. Another Denver company chose for its dramatic locale a rainswept bit of Maine seacoast where the incessant downpour drove a bedraggled housewife insane, sent her out to follow the fancied ghost of a long-dead lover. Actors from Dayton, Ohio, were concerned with Zanzibar. Three Manhattan companies dealt, respectively, with Japan, Petrograd, the Crystal Caverns...
...Cracow Military Club and when asked for an explanation replied that there was only one tongue in which gentlemen explained such things to each other. Thereafter-"Three . . ."- he accused Count Skrzynski of having engineered the coup of General Pilsudski, and now-"Four ..."-he waited, in a rainswept field, for-"Five. . . ." Count Szeptycki tossed his pistol to a second...