Word: hosing
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...handful of workers from the Botany Worsted Mills, how it spread until it included some 10,000 employes of other Jersey mills, how the grey-faced men and girls, exhorted by Strike-leader Albert Weisbord, by Elisabeth Gurley Flynn, picketed and paraded, were jailed, clubbed and watered with fire-hose (TIME, March 15), forget that these grim maneuvers still continue intermittently from day to day, and exclaim, when despatches from Passaic thrust themselves once more into the headlines, "What? That strike again?" Last week the strike flamed back into print with a vengeance...
...story is briefly the progress of saints and sinners from the sewers and gutters up into light and happiness on the seventh floor of a Paris lodging house, via "the hose", the war, and faith in God, in man, and the "idea". The war is a far cry, but what else could effect half so nicely a marriage in the sight of heaven alone, and a reunion four years later with a blinded, but indomitable husband in Poilu blue...
...temples of chaste white marble impart an Attic quietude to one side of Princeton University's central campus, back of Nassau Hall. In days gone by, vast quantities of glutinous flour, hose water, impossible eggs, red paint, mustard and sick fruit have hurtled against their immaculate facades what time incoming classes, while posing for their photographs, have been advised by sophomores that vanity is not pleasing to the gods. But the freshmen have always laved the temples afterward until they shone pristine and classic as before...
...minutes three hook-and-ladders and seven chemical and hose trucks came from Brighton and Cambridge to fight the fire. Hose was dragged into the Varsity room and after the framed photographs of crews of past years had been religiously removed the entire room was well sprayed. Axes were used to cut holes in the ceiling and corner of the room where the smoke was worst. With great difficulty, because of the ice on the floats ladders were placed and firemen climbed to the roof where holes were made through the tiles and water was poured in. The fire...
...eleven lined up against Tufts on June 4. The game was played at Jarvis Field, and the "Harvards," as the University eleven was at the time referred to by the press, created a sensation by being clothed in white sweaters with a magenta "H," "white pants," and "crimson hose...