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Captain Lash (Fox). Victor McLaglen takes the same kind of parts as George Bancroft but is a little bigger, better natured and less impressive. When a crazy fireman knocks open a steam valve in the stokehole where he works, McLaglen gets hurt rescuing Claire Windsor who has come down there with a party of passengers being shown around the ship. Does that girl make goo-goo eyes? Yes, she does make goo-goo eyes. Is she smuggling diamonds? Yes, she's smuggling diamonds. Three or four years ago a film photographed, acted, plotted as effectively as this would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...leathern buckets in his room. When a fire occurred the townspeople pulled out the fire engine, a crude, hand-worked pump which they kept filled by means of bucket chains extending to the nearest lake or river. One of these engines is shown in the accompanying picture with a fireman on top directing the liquid stream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History of Fire Companies Recalled by Notice in Baker Library---Mayor and Council Went to Fire in Full Regalia | 2/6/1929 | See Source »

...fireman bounds out of bed and rushes to a fire, so Crown Prince Pierre de Polignac of Monaco bounded into a sleeping car berth at Paris and rushed off to Monte Carlo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONACO: Polignac v. Mon | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...warden was put in charge of the chickens; the radio-announcer was given a mop; the judge was made a waiter in the mess hall; the preacher was given the task of cleaning the chapel each day; the bartender was put to washing dishes; the pugilist was made a fireman in the power house; the masseur was given the job of manicuring the yard; and the pretzel peddler was assigned to the scavenger cart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sing Sing | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Casey said just before he died, "There's two more roads that I'd like to ride." Fireman said, "What could that be?" "The Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe." Mrs. Jones sat on her bed asighing Just received a message that Casey was dying, Said, "Go to bed, children, and hush your crying, 'Cause you've got another papa on the Salt Lake Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Jones | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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