Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tanker-is rapidly lifting her cargo of Venezuela crude. A muffled, methodical, pumping, pumping, pumping sound, and a shimmying, twelve-inch, flexible, metallic, rubber hose, extending overside from her pipe line on deck to a connection on the dock, is all that is evident as this 100,000-barrel monster serenely discharges herself of a valuable oil cargo, and pumps it into storage tanks on shore, from where it goes to the stills and eventually becomes...
...with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color. The results can easily be tested by comparing a test-tube full of water with a graded color chart. In addition the floor of the tank will be periodically subjected to the suction of a large curry comb. connected by a hose to the vacuum end of the pumps...
...were 2,000 more frenzied demonstrators. When police tried to clear the City Hall steps, a dozen men jumped on gigantic Inspector George J. Matowitz. He shook them like rats off his shoulders, shouted orders for more police. Mob fists crunched and pummeled. Knives flashed. Fire engines clattered up. Hose lines were connected. The mob was washed away. Behind it was left trampled Sol Jagoda with a broken back, trampled William Lux with a fractured skull, many hats, fragments of clothes, splatters of blood. Inspector Matowitz had had his coat tails torn off. Three policemen were hurt, eight mobsters arrested...
...Private Affair. Minna Gombell, a fulsome beauty, plays the heroine of this romance by Myron C. Fagan, in which a wife who has allowed herself the pleasure of wearing sturdy woolen stockings, comfortable sweaters and helpful horn-rimmed glasses, learns of an old necessity and reverts to fragile silk hose, mascara, rouge, lipstick, perfume, corsets and eye-strain for her husband's sake. This theme is presented with a truly incredible number of historic wheezes and situations...
...works hard, keeps in trim, can walk on his hands. In Los Angeles last summer he was arrested for reckless driving. Next day he was arrested again because he still felt so jolly that he had stood outside a café and squirted a hose on the café manager's automobile and on passersby. Tall, lean, industrious, he is seldom so jolly as that, though last week he was to be seen in Manhattan full of great cheers over a new M-G-M cinema contract, and his employers' extravagant advertising...