Word: hosing
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...clock the Department's newest and shiniest ladder truck was blocking half of Quincy Street behind the Fire House, and a shower of spray fell from the hose at the top of the raised ladder...
Brandishing a mop in an axe-like manner, a five-eater was swabbing the third story windows. An assistant directed the hose on the panes at the same time; so dirt didn't have much chance of staying on the outside...
...staid columns of the Chicago Journal of Commerce last week appeared a matter-of-fact little item reporting the formation and election of officers of an organization called the Grand Knights of the Hose. Its status was apparently that of a fun division of the big, serious-minded National Association of Petroleum Retailers, trade body for the nation's filling stations. Spontaneously organized...
...only were they having fun with the boots and their new waterproof hats, but they had a hose! If you've never seen a C. W. W. boy with a hose you've got a treat coming for they really know...
First they tried squirting water down a Telephone Company manhole, the hose wouldn't reach to their own, then one of the boys tried putting his finger over the end. Wheeeeee! You should have seen the water fly. But all good things must end and finally the engine broke and everyone went home...