Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life, was released from the Elizabeth City Hospital Sunday morning. Young Nixon was brought to the hospital last week in a frightful condition from the effects of a blast of air from a powerful air compressor injected into his interior by a playmate. The nozzle of the air hose was thrust into the posterior of the youth and the air blast literally blew the contents of his bowels up and through his mouth and nostrils. He was brought to the hospital with his intestines inflated and paralyzed...
...York City last week, Irwin Blum, 10-year-old Bronx boy, became curious. Wishing to see how fire boxes work, he pulled in a false alarm. As the hose truck of Engine Co. No. 73 sped toward the non-existent fire, an automobile drove across its path. Swerving to avoid collision, the hose truck crashed into an "L" pillar. Fireman Henry Holster, father of four children, was killed...
...Association of Cotton Textile Merchants of New York just finished counting the number of stockings made during 1925. Of the 103,707,336 dozen pairs made then, 50,402,000 dozen were entirely of cotton; of about 39,000,000 dozen pairs of half hose, 21,000,000 dozen were of cotton. And, proudly noted the Association, cotton had to be used to reenforce the tops, toes and heels of two-thirds of the rest...
...well turned calf" hide it in flapping cylinders, or at best set it forth to little advantage under plus fours. It is only a question of time, and of the advent of a man of spirit, before the black and white of evening dress gives way to silken hose and satin knee-breeches, vests of gorgeous brocade and cloaks of rainbow colors...
...inches long with no standard to guide them. Last week the U. S. Bureau of Standards, after measurement of 14,400 pairs, decided the standard length should be 27½ inches from heel to top. On a girl 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighing 130 lb., the hose will come eight inches above the knees. Stockings of this length can be held by clasp or band garters, or be rolled. Children's stockings will range from 15 to 26.5 inches. Men's socks will be 14 and 14½ inches long...