Word: faucet
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...newly fitted for the occasion with aluminum, steel and micarta walls and black & white glass showcases. A huge red propeller on the Museum stoop keynoted the show. Inside was a glittering confusion of coils, springs, carpet sweepers, kettles, mirrors, ladles, automobile headlights, slide rules. In one corner a water faucet stood on a pedestal. On black velvet was a cluster of dental instruments. There was an array of tubular steel chairs, a number of suspended springs so delicate they responded to a breath...
...traps, caught a goat, made the he-goat run a treadmill to churn the she-goat's milk, trained a turtle to follow food dangled by a stick in a circle, thereby lifting water from a well to run down a chute, over a fire and out of a faucet marked "Hot." He lives in a "penthouse," an impressive four-room house on a platform that must have taken the United Artists carpenter crew months to make (not to speak of the months they must have spent making hollowed wooden dishes, sharpened shell knives and scissors, woven blankets and tapestries...
...presence of a single character, Bobble Spence, a victim of poison gas who can neither speak nor move sufficiently to write. He it is who in the end gives the answer to the question "Who did it?", but it is not given before a long investigation by Inspector Faucet, the detective assigned to the case. By means of some tricky work Faucet, ably and amusingly played by Francis Compton, decides that the only person who knows anything about the murder is Bobbie, for that pitiable person was of necessity in the room where the murder took place at the fatal...
...relieve another in applying the strokes. "The Water Cure-so called: This was administered by placing the girl in a shower bath compartment, stripped naked except for bloomers. The cold shower overhead is turned on and a garden hose is used to play cold water from a nearby faucet, full force direct upon the naked body, the hose being held but a few feet from the girl. By testimony of the attendant who usually applies this punishment, she plays it in the girls' faces to sort of strangle them. . . . Testimony was given that one girl fainted under this water...
...squalid little Near Eastern states know that Mr. Crane was their friend as American Commissioner on Mandates in Turkey (1919); and he was a most popular U. S. Minister to China (1920-21). Throughout the U. S. almost any dainty faucet, bathroom jigger or giant sewer valve is apt to bear the impress CRANE. Therefore it was matter of interest and concern to millions when, last week, the automobile of Charles Richard Crane was savagely fired upon by Arabian bandits, 60 miles south of Basra, Irak...