Word: inspectoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budapest, for the first time in history, an opera was called off on account of rain. It was to be Offenbach's La Belle Helene at the Municipal Theatre and the fire inspector was making his round 15 minutes before curtain time. He tried this exit, examined that extinguisher. He touched a wrong lever and stage rain fell, beat upon the scenery until all was ruined, no performance possible...
Plebeian hogs have no figures. Plebeian hogs are squat, short-legged, roly-poly, fat. But blue-ribbon hogs are slender, graceful, meaty. Reason, as revealed at the American Royal Live Stock Show (Kansas City), last week, by able Swine Inspector E. Z. Russell of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture...
...cement caused the Chief Inspector of Police of Prague to be run over and killed by a fire engine...
...rule, that when all the city's fire engines careened forth at once through its ancient, narrow streets, last week, someone was sure to get run over. Paradoxically the only person killed by a fire engine was the one man most needed to organize rescue work, the Chief Inspector of Police. But eager subordinates sprang to take his place. Within 30 minutes 2,000 police and volunteers were delving and tunneling into the ruins. Meanwhile frenzied wives and mothers of the buried workmen arrived screaming, and had to be fought off to a distance by a second hastily assembled corps...
Simultaneous with the release of Secretary Kellogg's opium note, a Federal customs squad in Jersey City went sniffing through the Dollar liner President Harrison, just back from a world cruise with stops in China. The ship's crew included 131 Chinamen, who smiled stupidly when Inspector John Stirling ordered his men to cast the President Harrison's 90-fathom anchor chains out of their locker in the bows. Beneath the chains was a false partition. Behind the partition were 15,990 ounces of high-grade opium - the "Rooster" and "Kein Chung" brands- worth some...