Word: sprinklers
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...Francisco, Sprinkler-Driver Al Elliott kept on sprinkling the city streets through a driving downpour. Haled before city officials, he indignantly asked, "Why should I drive in and lose half a day's pay? I was told to sprinkle the streets and I did. Is it my fault if it rains...
...speakers, blew a tin whistle until he was red in the face. Unavailing, he advanced on the library with a burly "Red squad" of policemen. When the students swarmed around them, the flustered policemen swung nightsticks, knocked out two girl., students. Finally Director Ingalls turned on the sprinkler system, cleared the campus in two minutes...
...Yard's now sprinkler system turned on the Freshman Class last night much to the chagrin of men living in Grays Hall. Sleepy members of the Class of 1938 were aroused by the noise of the sprinklers in the basement and flocked to the corner of the Yard near Lehman Hall, in various stages of undress...
...bells are connected with the Rindge Fire Station and the Apted sanctum. Whether automatic sprinkler systems have been installed in the newly renovated Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy Halls it has not been possible to ascertain. The gongs not only serve to give a general alarm of fire, but also serve effectively to locate the hydrants...
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...