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Word: hosed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jowled jollities are indistinguishable from the ones which the U. S. screen's No. 1 specialist in 19th Century captains of finance has used in all his previous portrayals. Good shot: Fisk, Boyd and the Ninth Regiment routing a gang hired by Vanderbilt by turning a hose on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...music festival in Salzburg (see p. 37), the main performance is not the whole show at Central City. There are saloons and gambling halls with oldtime atmosphere and Sheila Barrett doing impersonations in a nightclub. On the schedule this year are trips through the gold mines, a hose-cart race by the volunteer fire department, a rock-drilling contest for Colorado miners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Central City, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...Companies. Hammermill Paper Co. (10 each); California Portland Cement Co., Deere & Co. (8 each); The Carborundum Co., Inland Steel Co., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (4 each). Other bibliophiles: Walter P. Chrysler (50 copies), Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, International Association of Machinists, American Federated Hose Workers of Philadelphia (4 each); Charles M. Schwab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bibliophiles | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...York American is one Harry Millstine, a resident of Queens Borough. Because he works in a filling station, Reader Millstine was professionally interested one day last week in a "Radio Patrol" sequence which depicted a gasoline vendor foiling a bandit by drenching him with the fuel hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whoosh! | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Emerging from the Common Room an hour or so later, the Seniors were greeted from above with emptied (not for long) buckets of water. Thus invigorated, they proceeded to turn a fire hose on the tennis courts and take down all the nets, including back nets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Would-be Doctors Operate on Tennis Court, Chandelier | 5/28/1937 | See Source »

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