Word: hydrant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lynn, Mass., when Florist Alexander Kowera fell asleep for a moment while driving his car, the car ran into a hydrant and knocked down a telegraph pole carrying high tension wires. Water from the broken hydrant flooded the street, street lights in the manufacturing district went out, a drawbridge operated electrically was disabled, Kowera's automobile caught on fire. Alexander Kowera. burned, was fined $25 for reckless driving...
When souvenir seekers tried to dash forward and dip their handkerchiefs into the wide, dark pool of blood, police forced them sternly back, hitched a hose to a neighboring hydrant, washed the street scrupulously clean...
...fire, Col. Kluge pressed forward to get a good look. A fire hose burst loose from its hydrant, whipped around, caught Col. Kluge in the back of the skull with its metal coupling, killed...
...number of brilliant back stage sketches. One of these, a large water color of a lean, complacent French clown drawing on a huge pair of rose-colored gloves, would be worthy of attention if its author did not know the difference between a fly loft and a fire hydrant...
Congruity between his original and her mental versions was very often astonishingly close. For example, he sketched a water hydrant. She drew water coming out of a nozzle...