Word: sprinklers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Returning to Manhattan from a West Indian holiday, Sprinkler Manufacturer William Magraw discovered that his wife, Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, widow of Publisher Edward R. Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph and twice a divorcee, had cut off all her hair. The New York Dailv Mirror printed her photograph. Said Magraw, who is even balder than his wife: "It is the beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. ... If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with...
...make the alarm headquarters foolproof and fire-proof. To safeguard the equipment against fire, each window is equipped with jets for a "water curtain" and also a steel curtain which falls automatically if a fire breaks out nearby. Both of these protections work on the principle of the automatic sprinkler system--that is, the metal with which the ends of the jets are covered melts at a low temperature and the water bursts forth in a stream, throwing a curtain of water over the outside of the window...
News cameramen about the place caused the Falls great annoyance. One evening while Fall's daughter was watering the flowers, she turned the hose on a fig tree and doused a hidden camera. A disgruntled photographer let fly a stone that grazed the sprinkler's side. Police were called in. They found Fall sitting with a shotgun across his knees, ready to shoot down any cameraman who came on the premises...
Summoned to court, the poison-sprinkler, Mrs. Helen Corel, housekeeper for one John J. Smith, realtor, first stated that she had been after rats. But after being questioned she admitted that she had intended the arsenic for dogs. She said she did not wish to kill them; she was fond of dogs in the country or a large back yard. She had only meant to discourage them from loitering. Her basement windows had to be washed twice a day because of them. "Early in the morning and late at night and . . . during the day there were dogs in front...