Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today who has the Albert Medal 1st Class, usually associated with peacetime heroism. One day in 1916 fire broke out in an R.F.C. bomb store containing 2,000 high-explosive bombs. The key could not be found. Cyril Newall and a mechanic climbed on the roof and played a hose through a hole burned by the flames. Newall then led three others into the building, and together they put out the fire...
...Chicago, nine minutes before the close of WBBM's Ellery Queen program, a water hose burst in the transmitter cooling system, and WBBM had to go off the air. Almost immediately WBBM's switchboard was swamped with calls, all asking, "Who was the murderer?" The phone girl had to call CBS in Manhattan, whence the program had been coming, to find out. The next hour she spent replying: "The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . . The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . ." Next day WBBM called back another thousand who had left their numbers, reporting Mr. Wiggins' crime with trimmings...
...Warren's men grabbed at the netting to clamber to the Rex's rail. Stralla's seamen met them with a blast from the Rex's fire hose. The Warren party fished out their men, returned to shore, where a stronger squadron was organized, including ships of the Coast Guard and Fish & Game Commission. The 600 patrons were returned to shore during a truce, at dawn, and then the Warren fleet anchored or cruised around the Rex, promising to starve its commander & crew into submission...
...Abolishing minor sports would destroy half the initiative and incentive to improvement in athletics. Furthermore, half the fun of playing sports is the outside competition. If economy is necessary, the minor sports schedules could be made shorter and the money saved diverted to Hose athletics if expansion is required there...
...time the Original Amateur Hour has turned up surprisingly few people who have got anywhere in big-time entertainment. Of the 5,000 who have signed the Major's "amateur's oath"-mouth organists, bell ringers, jug players, musical sawyers, garden-hose players, yodelers, tap dancers-most went back home to tend store, plow fields, marry, sell iceboxes with the memory of one shining moment in show business...