Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schuylerville, N. Y., firemen went to a fire. There the Mayor grew meddlesome. The Water Commissioner, exhilarated, squirted the Fire Chief with the departmental hose. Piqued, the fire company disbanded...
...ubiquitous filling station. An ordinary roadside station may do a gross business of $25,000 a year in gasoline and oil. A city station of the same size may sell three times as much. But whether 200 or 1,000 gallons of gasoline per day gush through a hose into 30 gas tanks, many motorists must wait beside the filling station. While they wait they might as well be sold something...
...noon mess. Nine hundred of the penitentiary's 3,758 inmates rebelled, threw their food and plates about, broke windows, seized knives and forks. Ordered back to their cells, they bolted for the prison yard where they screamed curses, milled about frantically, became altogether unruly. When a fire hose failed to break them, guards opened fire with riot guns. One convict was killed, three fell wounded, the rest retreated to the cell blocks...
...circles through the sky all through one week, all through the next week, on into another week, without ever coming down. Now and then another big creature would roar up from the ground and hover solicitously over the soaring one, evidently feeding it or something through a long hose. Other creatures would fly up alongside with queer marks on the sides of their bodies. "HELLO SON? HERE IS PA AND MA JACKSON," said the marks one time, after the soaring one had been up long enough for a buzzard to sail from St. Louis to the Gulf and back...
...played comic parts in the various rooms, waiting for the red lights which would cause the building to seem on fire. They would then be "res-cued" by the fire company's expert ladder-work. Next the building would be set really ablaze, to display the fire company's hose-work...