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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: To the Russian Peasantry . . . | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 16, 1932 | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Theatre | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Telepathy | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...heard a fire alarm ring near the Park Plaza, his Manhattan headquarters. All agog, he rushed to the street, discovered firemen putting out a small blaze in the Plaza annex, would not calm himself until he had used his great paws to help screw a fire-hose to a hydrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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