Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teeth. John and Leo got a toothbrush, tried to clean the foam away. When Bing growled at them, John said: "Stop it, Bing. Remember, you must never bite, no matter what we do to you." The foam kept coming in Bing's mouth so the boys got a hose...
Self-Help. Over Los Angeles Pilot Paul Munro, flying solo, set the controls of his Curtiss Robin, crawled aft in the cabin, seized a fuel hose dangling from a : nurse ship. He helped himself to 132 gal. of gasoline, returned to his cockpit, flew on. Seven times Pilot Munro repeated the performance, landed only 43 min. short of a new (38 hr.) solo duration record because of a long-distance quarrel with the nurse pilot...
...merchants who encourage dependent wives to luxurious credit buying, Author Clarence Budington Kelland contested a suit brought against him by a Manhattan gownshop for bills of $3,313 incurred by his wife. Said he: "I allege that my financial condition at no time would justify a characterization of hose at $6.50 a pair, a white Panama hat at $40, cloth coat at $420, dresses at $225 and $250, and perfumery at $25 or $15, as necessaries for my wife." Ill lay: Mrs- John Work Garrett, of bronchial influenza, in Baltimore; Charles Spencer Chaplin, of food poisoning, in Hollywood; Dr, Rolla...
When souvenir seekers tried to dash forward and dip their handkerchiefs into the wide, dark pool of blood, police forced them sternly back, hitched a hose to a neighboring hydrant, washed the street scrupulously clean...
...traditional house is an artificed cave. The traditional bathtub is an artificed pool. Buckminster Fuller has replaced these "feudal and finite" properties with what he calls "services." Dwellers in the dymaxion house will bathe with an airpressure hose squirting 90% air, 10% water, no soap, in a compressed fog over their skin. Little water, no bathtub, no faucets or sinks, will be needed. Toilets will be dry, a machine converting sewage into methane gas to provide the house's light and power. Air will be conditioned, making bedclothes unnecessary. All machinery will fit into the central duraluminum mast...