Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army, set them to guard all roads inland from Montevideo's peninsula. The Navy had already been reduced to one small cruiser. Looking for a safe spot to live he turned to the Fire Department which is organized on military lines. To the firehouse he went, ordered the hose laid out, set up his headquarters. Then he gave Uruguay's model Constitution three well-aimed kicks. Last week it had fallen apart like an old basket...
After two days & nights authorities decided that the picnic had lasted long enough. Police spent two hours gently herding out the crowd. From the roof deputy sheriffs used a fire hose to quench the spirits of some 500 or 600 who tried to force their way back inside. ¶ Some 4,000 Nebraska farmers slept on the State Fair Grounds two miles out of Lincoln one night last week. Next morning they hitched up their overalls, raised their banners, marched shouting and singing to the Capitol. Half of them got into the legislative chamber, presented to a joint session...
...months she goes to work in an office which is about 30 minutes traveling distance from home. For almost two years she does clerical work about seven and a half hours a day. five and a half days a week. She wears the usual type of clothing, including lightweight hose and underwear, and a heavy coat which her parents are satisfied is adequate. Throughout her life she has a good appetite and does not diet. She is regarded as a fairly quiet 'home girl,' who does not keep irregular hours and averages between eight and nine hours sleep...
...Montclair, N. J. last week Guy B. Rose, principal of Glenfield Elementary & Junior High School, was charged with beating 11-year-old Delardo Leva about the head and back with a rubber hose ("gold-fish"). Sabatto Leva, father, declared that as a result his son had contracted rheumatic fever aggravated by a weakened heart. Principal Rose was paroled pending grand jury action...
...which was one of the most important objects in the amazing house he built on Fifth Avenue. Senator Clark's Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours in doublet & hose.* One of their most vivid childish recollections is the old copper tycoon's glittering gold teeth. As an artist, Bernard Boutet de Monvel absorbed everything but his father's sly sense of humor. Fifty years old. almost theatrically handsome, his life sounds like the day dreams...