Word: sprinklers
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...Indeed they are. All Garden State's structural materials had been purchased before Pearl Harbor; 60% of the metal was secondhand, the second-hand "Lai-lies" (concrete-filled steel cylinders) used in place of steel columns are unsuitable for scrap; wood was substituted for metal wherever possible; a sprinkler system was rented from a Florida track. Instead of the 1,900 tons of steel originally planned, Boss Mori got along with...
...pajama-clad Yardlings assembled, and water began to seep under first floor doorsills, firemen determined the cause of the nocturnal deluge to be the mysterious melting of wax in a second floor sprinkler. Head Fire Chief Herman E. Gutholm was heard to mutier, as he drove away in disgust. "Sabotage, no doubt...
After distributing cigars, and "cigarettes for the effeminate", Mr. Kittredge sat and smoked, and listened with well-simulated interest while I, dripping with perspiration like a municipal sprinkler, read on and on, and while in the semi-darkness my fellow students heaved oc-occasional gusty sights of weariness; but one's reward came with a few benign words of approval which seemed an Olympian benedicton...
...holy Marxist doctrine. Comrade Cannon sided with Prophet Trotsky, who in long epistles to the infidels condemned the Stalinists' means but condoned their ends. Soon Marxists Cannon and Schachtman were as doctrinally tangled as two Fundamentalist preachers, one of whom is a dipper and the other a sprinkler. Wroth, Trotsky called Schachtman "the floating kidney of the working class...
...build roads, brood bitterly over their frustration, Poet Miller went back to the frontier, settled on a pleasant 100-acre Oakland hilltop, where he erected statues of Frémont, Moses, Browning, charmed club women with demonstrations of rainmaking, which consisted of chanting gibberish and turning on a concealed sprinkler on the roof. In general Joaquin Miller's career suggests that of the whole caboodle; he was perhaps the only one who really belonged there...