Word: hydrants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to wane. At that time the successful hostess will show her mettle, provided of course that she has stocked up on a variety of conversational cues. She can always start up a new buzz by casually reciting a line of poetry such as: I talk to the fire hydrant, asking: "Do you have bigger tears than...
Tears from a Hydrant. This chatter was only a way of passing the time, for the guests had come for something more important than Scotch and Spinoza. They had come to meet 32-year-old Allen Ginsberg of Paterson, N.J., author of a celebrated, chock-full catalogue called Howl (I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked), recognized leader of the pack of oddballs (TIME, June 9) who celebrate booze, dope, sex and despair and who go by the name of Beatniks...
...arrived, wearing blue jeans and a checked black-and-red lumberjacking shirt with black patches at the elbows. With him were two other shabbily dressed Beatniks. One was Ginsberg's intimate friend, a mental-hospital attendant named Peter Orlovsky, 25, who writes poetry (I talk to the fire hydrant, asking: "Do you have bigger tears than I do?"); the other was Gregory Corso, 28, a shaggy, dark little man who boasts that he has never combed his hair-and never gets an argument. Corso, also a poet, will be remembered for his lines...
Exterior Decorator. In Detroit, the fire department dispatched a man to repaint a fire hydrant after Mrs. Lucille Wilson, complaining that its yellow top was "all faded" and clashed with her fence posts, had slapped on a gleaming coat of white...
...Last Frontier. In New Brunswick, N.J.. Patrolman James Gray, spotting a new fire hydrant on his beat, investigated, found that the nearest resident was keeping the parking space in front of his house open with a cork imitation...