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With ten miles of hose 300 London firemen fought a towering blaze in the dreary slum of Wapping last week while cordons of polite police kept 100,000 spectators...
...Nuremberg, Communists and Fascists (National Socialist Workers party) met for a debate which terminated in a free-for-all. Spectators amused themselves by pitching beer mugs and stones into the throng, injuring 70 contestants, among them three Fascist aldermen. Police charged and dispersed the rioters with truncheons and fire hose...
...cases so many strokes were given that one attendant had to relieve another in applying the strokes. "The Water Cure-so called: This was administered by placing the girl in a shower bath compartment, stripped naked except for bloomers. The cold shower overhead is turned on and a garden hose is used to play cold water from a nearby faucet, full force direct upon the naked body, the hose being held but a few feet from the girl. By testimony of the attendant who usually applies this punishment, she plays it in the girls' faces to sort of strangle...
...cowboy golfer who put Jones out of the National Amateur in the first round last year at Pebble Beach, arrived in a car with a trailer, asked a man near the Interlachen club if he could camp on his estate. The householder recognized Goodman, welcomed him, ran his garden hose down to the trailer. Goodman tied with Horton Smith for the lowest first-nine score of the tournament, a 33, slumped thereafter, but finished in a tie for ninth place ahead of Walter Hagen...
They did. Hurling bricks, bottles, shooting guns, they broke the cordon of troops, set the courthouse aflame, hacked the hose of arriving firemen. In the fracas, John Melton and Floyd Barker were shot by comrades. The $60,000 building was demolished. George Hughes, in his vault, eventually roasted to death...