Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convinced that modern girls are tidy bodies who wash out their stockings every night if possible, detectives of New York City's Missing Persons Bureau always take a second look when they pass a girl with soiled and sagging hose. The odds are that she is a runaway, homeless in the big city. Last year the Missing Persons Bureau, which does the biggest job of its sort, located all but 25 of the 2,059 local missing girls reported to it. Most of them turned up at employment and charity agencies, but an appreciable few went home in response...
...display at prices that will suit any budget. Knowing also that men are quality and style conscious, the University Shop specializes in furnishings designed exclusively for Harvard tastes by manufacturers from the style centers of the world. Shirts with collars styled particularly for college men, imported hose, hats in designs exclusively by and for the University Shop, and countless other items rarely available in such selections at such moderate prices...
...late Will Rogers had been evacuated. Actually, the buildings were almost all squatters' huts or beach houses. The Rogers' home was evacuated because Will Rogers Jr. and his brother Jim wanted to amuse themselves by putting out the nearest tongues of flame with a garden hose. Leo Carrillo's was evacuated because unlike less energetic movie folk who watched the flames from their porches, he preferred the excitement of riding close on his sleek white horse...
...ideas is obviously not the ideas themselves but his rich, compassionate, angry feeling for people, his tremendous dramatic punch, his dialogue, bracing as ozone. In every Odets play, regardless of its theme or its worth, at least once or twice during the evening every spectator feels that a fire hose has been turned on his body, that a fist has connected with his chin...
What really makes me mad is that in Widener Library, where the catalog says that "all men are equal before the knowledge of the ages," there is a door plainly marked FIRE HOSE FOR OFFICERS ONLY. This burns us Freshmen up. Norman E. Furbrush...