Word: rainswept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty crossed the rainswept Channel on the bridge of a destroyer, with destroyer and airplane escort, but care was taken that Lord Haw-Haw (Germany's super-accented radio propagandist who kids the English in English) and other Nazis should not know he had gone until after he landed. The British Government wanted no repetition of what occurred recently when the President of France "secretly" visited the front, saw-across the river on the German bank-a banner with letters ten feet high, reading...
Promptly at 9:30 a. m. a bugle sounded through the rainswept yard. Alumni rallied to 56 flags flying over their respective Class assemblies, began to march four abreast to the exposed and sopping seats of the Tercentenary Theatre. From the broad portico of Widener Library to their equally sopping seats on the stage filed the President of Harvard, Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley, Massachusetts' Senior Episcopal Bishop William Lawrence, 62 foreign and domestic scholars who were to receive honorary degrees. Also on hand was a Federal Commission authorized by Public Resolution No. 88 of the last Congress...
...noon he boarded the Houston, which bore him away at 18 knots across a rainswept sea. Four hours later he landed in St. Thomas, V. I., was met by Governor Paul Pearson, carried up into the town to be greeted by cheering crowds. Kindly Governor Pearson and his goodhearted lady dined that evening with the President aboard the Houston, watched from its deck a procession of illuminated floats serenading the President, celebrating the Island's industries and beauty...