Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five engines and a small crowd of 200 persons gathered within a short time. Mocking cries of "Fire" added to the ire of the fire company until threats of the hose dampened the enthusiasm of those looking on from the nearby windows...
...policeman is over. We must so conduct ourselves, in our relations with the public, that we shall be regarded as public servants who know the rules of courtesy as well as the means of capturing a criminal." The "third degree" (arm-twisting, dazzling with a light, beating with a hose) is not used to extort confessions in Omaha...
...Navy Department argument has been like that of a fire-chief who insists upon having for his men hose-nozzles and helmets no whit inferior to those considered necessary by the experienced chief of a neighboring town. Professional reputations are at stake as well as national safety. The Navy Department, and its "second to none" statement, were rather the agents than the reagents of the Coolidge speech. The common object was to put momentum behind the Department's cruiser-building bill (15 cruisers, 1 aircraft carrier) which got delayed in the last session of Congress and which...
...Cambridge, and Quincy streets. The site was chosen by Fire Chief J. M. Casey as an ideal place for a fire station. Chief Casey stated yesterday that if the negotiations for the exchange of properties are carried through, the station will house a 60 foot hook and ladder, a hose wagon, and a pump engine...
...order to show his players how to handle a wet football, famed Coach Chick Meehan of New York University drenched several with a garden hose and gave them to his squad for practice, on a sunny afternoon...