Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Cincinnati's City Manager Clarence O. Sherrill of Cincinnati waved his magic wand of efficiency and all city firemen found themselves invested with police powers. On a general police alarm they will issue from their firehouses and place their apparatus across 65 important street intersections, thus blocking all traffic and the escape of criminals...
...fireman who swarmed over the ladders with hose in hand, the crowd pressed close upon the building in their enthusiasm, with the result that many overzealous individuals were completely routed when a torrent of water, unleashed from the hose, escaped from a broken window. In another instance, the firemen, taunted with concerted chants of "Let it burn!" and "Damn the firemen", turned the hose and swept the crowd, somewhat dampening the ardor of the surging ranks...
...Manhattan, policemen and firemen cornered two murderers in an animal store. Massacre was being done; corpses littered the floor; strangled parakeets lay limp; flapping goldfish gasped for life; fumbling turtles swayed perplexedly. After two hours the killers were subdued- a wicked little monkey and a big. black, bad baboon...
...leather fire hats were stolen from the ladder wagon while it was stopped in front of the Georgian. The firemen, who fought the blaze above the coffee urns with heads uncovered, came out to find their leather headgear gone. The trail led plausibly enough one block over to the Pudding Clubhouse on Holyoke street. No fire hats could be found there at a late hour last night. The fireman was told that the period of the play was 1850. He went away from there...
Invisible intelligencers spread the news in the great ant hill. Squads of ant firemen advanced into the tunnel, attacked the flames, carried out smoke-blackened passengers. Many were injured, none killed. Scores of ant officials with ant authority hurried to investigate...