Word: hosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bratislava last week, Slovak independence provided a test of his technique. During a soccer game between the Czech-Moravian team and the Slovak eleven, Slovak spectators took offense at two sudden Czech goals, injured several Czech players. The rioters were finally subdued with a fire hose...
...amazing assortment of evasions, half-truths and untruths activate the kilocycles. Radio actresses whose only acquaintance with hose washing is an occasional rinsing of ... nylons in a hotel bedroom . . . stand before microphones and read 'authentic testimonials' about soap flakes...
Three hook-and-ladder trucks, the fire chief's car, a pumping truck, and an emergency wagon were employed to carry one hose (small size) to the scene of the disaster. Slumbering Puritans, Bellboys, and Bunnies awoke for a half-hour of enjoyable confusion. Nobody had any marshmallows...
...many customers as possible were in debt to it, by a liberal credit policy encouraged everyone to keep buying. Some families owed Rich's $100 or more for three generations. Rich's adjustment policy was equally liberal. Once it accepted returns on hundreds of pairs of defective hose sold by rival stores. But it made more on good will than it lost on returned goods. Rich's expanded slowly, till World...
...have to dig much farther than this into The King's General to know that Daphne du Maurier has again struck pay dirt in the same lode that produced her best-selling Rebecca and Jamaica Inn. Her new novel (the Literary Guild's January selection) is a hose-and-doublet pageant of the English Civil War (1642 to 1646) for which Miss du Maurier's agent has whispered loudly to Hollywood that $250,000 will do. The chief characters of The King's General are mostly out of English history; .heir lusty, gusty goings...