Word: hosing
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...curtsied to burst into tears. An elderly lady, leading the rush to cover from the rain, tripped outside Buckingham Palace, sprawled flat, soiled her white gown. A gentleman arriving late stepped out of his limousine at the precise moment when a Buckingham Palace gardener turned on a hose which happened to be pointed at the gentleman, soused...
...Italy are selling quite so fast as the joyous new series called "For you, Little Blackface!" These buoyant cards show a little white Italian boy in Fascist uniform kissing and being kissed by an Ethiopian pickaninny. The empire-building Italian moppet then merrily delouses his Ethiopian charge with a hose, instructs him, inculcates Fascist discipline, helps him get started with an Italian plow and finally starts the "fun-after-work" called by Fascists Dopolavoro...
...ruffled shirt, no silken hose...
Typical of the rambling whimsicality of this better-than-average program picture is the sequence in which Robert Young obtains the promise of a job, gets his finger caught in the nozzle of an apartment house fire hose, vainly tries to extricate it before his new employer finds out what a fool...
Also, while many of the complaints of boredom in English A will be eliminated by the weeding out of t hose men entering under the "Highest Seventh" plan through a September examination, the committee felt that the stress on composition ability alone in the September examination would probably enable some of those men receiving a grade of less than 75 on the college board examination because of deficiency in literary knowledge to successfully avoid English...