Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dirigible dipped gently, close to the carrier; then bucked like a frightened horse. A vagrant gust tossed it 200 feet in air. Again it angled downward, its sensitive nose smelling the sea ship tentatively. Ropes were dropped, sailors dragged the huge sky ship closer, held it fast. A hose was hoisted aboard the Los Angeles. Refuelling was simulated; supplies, passengers exchanged...
...Sycamore, Ill., Mrs. Helena Dolder, newly appointed sheriff, had plates of tepid, sticky, horrible mush served to the prisoners at the jail. Thirty-three scowling criminals began to curse Mrs. Dolder, describing her mush also in uncomplimentary terms. Mrs. Dolder turned on a hose and squirted water over the 33 criminals until they cried for mercy. The next night she again provided plates of tepid, sticky, horrible mush. This the prisoners ate with relish...
Knees. "All co-eds must wear bloomers reaching to the tops of their hose at all times," decreed Dean Agnes Ermina Wells, Indiana University. It all started when a pretty co-ed crossed her legs in the library. An admiring student wrote a note, mentioned knees, asked for date...
...Leslie's should abandon, as they threaten to do, the debated territory of the fashionable tea shoppe to their enemies, the hairy-legged racquetmen, offers possibilities of stone throwing. The female crusader against legs laments a lack of modesty; and the male defendant retorts that "people who wear sheer hose should not wear short dresses." And even if the girls in question discreetly whisper a depilatory solution, the Harvard athlete would probably be no more willing to give up their Esau birthright than to wear silk stockings which leave little to the imagination. It is decidedly unsportsmanlike for the fair...
IRENE CASTLE MCLAUGHLIN (MRS. FREDERIC MCLAUGHLIN) Chicago, Ill. In her able response to Otto Lehman's statement, Mrs. McLaughlin points: to the professionalization of modern hose-shows; to methods of making a horse's tail assume an unnatural position by tail-setting, "gingering" or, in one despicable case, Spanish Fly Ointment; to the punishment which will overtake insensitive persons according to the theory of the transmigration of souls; to a continuance of "a long uphill climb...