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...advantages of this arrangement immediately became clear to Big Joe Uwanawich, who was charged with 51 traffic violations, including demolition of a fire hydrant with his Cadillac. "Judge," said he, "I will try to bring in all the Uwanawiches I can find. Even the ones out of town. By the way, Judge, do you want Miller Uwanawich...
...down on his overhead. Why should a dog with whom I have nothing in common . . . be given the right to bound over me and lick my face? Why should I walk along a darkened street with an unleashed hound sniffing around my ankles as if I were a mobile hydrant...
...Home. In Killdeer, N.Dak., J. K. Eckes, president of the North Dakota Firemen's Association, was fined $2 for parking too close to a fire hydrant...
Consider the lamp-post, gentlemen. Is it the brave, fearless last representative of a style of architecture that once was, standing in front of that horrid edifice, beaming its disrespect at it like a staunch puppydog eyeing a newfangled fire-hydrant? No, it is not. It is a ruse, a front, a deception placed there by the administration to lead us away from the realization of the thunderous truth: that modern architecture, the creeping cancer of our industrial technology, has in fact captured a corner of the Harvard Yard, the nucleus of New World intellect, world shrine of ivied Victorian...
Driver Dennis Walsh made a U-turn, parked the armored truck by a fire hydrant in front of Rope's drugstore, locked the doors on a treasure of three-quarters of a million dollars, and joined the two guards at the soda counter inside. Leaving a truck unguarded is strictly against company rules, but the trio had safely sneaked coffee in Danvers many times before...