Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy are selling quite so fast as the joyous new series called "For you, Little Blackface!" These buoyant cards show a little white Italian boy in Fascist uniform kissing and being kissed by an Ethiopian pickaninny. The empire-building Italian moppet then merrily delouses his Ethiopian charge with a hose, instructs him, inculcates Fascist discipline, helps him get started with an Italian plow and finally starts the "fun-after-work" called by Fascists Dopolavoro...
...ruffled shirt, no silken hose...
Typical of the rambling whimsicality of this better-than-average program picture is the sequence in which Robert Young obtains the promise of a job, gets his finger caught in the nozzle of an apartment house fire hose, vainly tries to extricate it before his new employer finds out what a fool...
Also, while many of the complaints of boredom in English A will be eliminated by the weeding out of t hose men entering under the "Highest Seventh" plan through a September examination, the committee felt that the stress on composition ability alone in the September examination would probably enable some of those men receiving a grade of less than 75 on the college board examination because of deficiency in literary knowledge to successfully avoid English...
...cases of crew trouble, mostly at sea. The charges included refusals to attend fire drills, to keep sufficient steam up after reprimands for not standing watch. It appeared that a crew had refused to sail until a prisoner in jail ashore was released. One story was that fire-hose had been found mangled by axes after the ship left port. When these tales reached the Press, ship owners bitterly assailed what they considered premature publicity, declared a "sabotage scare" was being built out of nothing. They had asked for no help in straightening things out, had given Chief Weaver information...