Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watery depressions in the enormous slab of territory that is now called Mongolia-reedy lakes along whose shores fed cold-blooded brutes of preposterous, hobgoblin shapes and proportions. Some were small, only eight or nine feet long, with skins no thicker than ordinary linoleum. Their necks were like fire-hose, ending in froggish heads. Their posteriors stuck out like a lizard's, into muscular tails. Their forelegs were futile flippers but astern were haunches like a bull ostrich, for swift, stooped running on webbed and clawed feet. Many of these creatures were vegetarians and some who grew...
Among those present at the game from realms of sport and society were certain members of the Revere Beach Fire Department to whom the Jampoon management had given free tickets. These made a merry scene with their flaming helmets and firey hose. The belle of the party was Miss Cupola of Mt. Auburn Street who was surrounded by a ring of spectators at all times...
...handful of workers from the Botany Worsted Mills, how it spread until it included some 10,000 employes of other Jersey mills, how the grey-faced men and girls, exhorted by Strike-leader Albert Weisbord, by Elisabeth Gurley Flynn, picketed and paraded, were jailed, clubbed and watered with fire-hose (TIME, March 15), forget that these grim maneuvers still continue intermittently from day to day, and exclaim, when despatches from Passaic thrust themselves once more into the headlines, "What? That strike again?" Last week the strike flamed back into print with a vengeance...
...story is briefly the progress of saints and sinners from the sewers and gutters up into light and happiness on the seventh floor of a Paris lodging house, via "the hose", the war, and faith in God, in man, and the "idea". The war is a far cry, but what else could effect half so nicely a marriage in the sight of heaven alone, and a reunion four years later with a blinded, but indomitable husband in Poilu blue...
...temples of chaste white marble impart an Attic quietude to one side of Princeton University's central campus, back of Nassau Hall. In days gone by, vast quantities of glutinous flour, hose water, impossible eggs, red paint, mustard and sick fruit have hurtled against their immaculate facades what time incoming classes, while posing for their photographs, have been advised by sophomores that vanity is not pleasing to the gods. But the freshmen have always laved the temples afterward until they shone pristine and classic as before...