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His titles — “Debbie Millstein Swallowed a Thumbtack,” “Hungarian Dog Wrestler,” “The Day It Rained Babies I Caught a Couple” — sounded as if he had borrowed them from old vaudeville routines.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

The writer-director Louise Archambault’s “And the Birds Rained Down” does this too for women even older.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2019

Rained out the previous two nights, the Mets finally got back on the field under clear skies in Queens with a gametime temperature of 77 degrees.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2013

The Eddie Floyd/Steve Cropper song Oh, How It Rained launched the show with stealthily chugging blues, which Stigers embroidered with languid hoots and slurs on the tenor sax.

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2012

In his journal he now wrote, "Disaster. ... Rained in. River look impossible. Lonely, scared."

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer