Word: petcock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Count Jersey Petcock, still the officially recognized ambassador to the United States from non-existent Poland, will give an address in Emerson D this afternoon at 4 o'clock concerning the position of his nation in the present European...
...completely demoralize traffic. Elmers capered about in diapers, smocks, underwear and funny faces blowing bugles, shooting blank pistols, tooting whistles, ringing bells, hooting sirens, beating tin cans. Prime trick was to stop a motorist, "inspect" his brakes, lights, horn, windshield wiper, then lift his hood and close the petcock on his gas line so that when released he would proceed only a few yards before the car stopped for good. Saloons ran all night long, bartenders were far too busy to prepare anything more complicated than rye-&-ginger ale. Most widespread feature of the heroes' high jinks...
...flamingo and bonefish) in the Bahamas, safe & sound but out of gas. Pilot Stafford's story: "The baby turned the petcock and allowed the gasoline normally pumped from the main tanks to the motor, to be pumped instead into emergency tanks and into the ocean...
Some 260 miles above Warsaw, a surly workman was discharged from a chemical factory last week. In revenge he broke a petcock, emptied a 3,500-gal. tank of carbolic acid into the river Czarna. Warsaw blanched, for the Czarna flows into the Pilika, and the Pilika flows into the Vistula, and the Vistula flows past Warsaw, and from it the city gets its water supply, filtering it at a great reservoir outside Warsaw. Officials at the Warsaw waterworks endeavored to calm apprehensions, pointed out that after floating 75 miles, 3,500 gal. of carbolic acid would purify rather than...
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