Word: siphon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee found the hotels' water and sewerage piping systems so old and faulty that when heavily taxed they would let waste from bathtubs and toilets siphon back into drinking water pipes. Water and sewer pipes were cross-connected. Sewers were leaky. Last June 29 a heavy rain overloaded sewers near the Auditorium, flooded its basement. Three days later another cloudburst broke two of the Congress' sewers, filled its ice storage house and covered its food-packed basement three to six inches deep with muck...
...Sewage was discovered to siphon into the drinking water pipes of what city's hotels...
...faith was discovered. As a shouting crowd swept along the Gran Via. a man suddenly arose from a cafe table crying "Viva Cristo Key! Long Live Christ the King!'' They made for him, but he fought them off with powerful squirts from a pale blue soda siphon. They wrecked the restaurant instead...
...this represent the British fleet," said he, pushing forward a whiskey bottle that was in front of him, "and this," placing beside it a soda siphon, "the American fleet. I really beg your pardon, gentlemen, I had no intention of referring to Prohibition. I had no thought of the contents of the bottles when I began the demonstration...
service. What was being drunk was suggested by the central figure of the advertisement (see cut) - a steward carrying his tray with a dark quart bottle, glass and seltzer siphon. No U. S.-bound traveler in Paris could discriminate against the U. S. Lines because of Prohibition...