Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile nurses and others, many partly clothed, fled from the two main exits of the building, screaming and clutching their throats. Firemen and policemen rushed to the scene. For 15 minutes they could not penetrate the fumes without gas masks...
Fire ladders were extended to the roof. The firemen looked down through the broken skylight on a stairway filled with a mass of struggling bodies, arms and legs twisted and intertangled. Screams and shrieks of agony arose. The rescuers broke their way in from the roof. More than 16 bodies blocked the stairway. Only one, that of a doctor, seemed alive. He was removed first but died in a hospital...
...point, dressed as a Carthaginian warrior, he keeps languidly remarking: "Oh nuts!" It was in the best interests of mirth to revive George S. Kaufman's skit in which two blase hotel guests discover that the house is on fire. Instead of leaving, they stay to entertain the firemen. As the flames curl outside the windows, one of the firemen telephones the office for the key to the next room. The other tunes a violin, giving the excuse: "Not enough time to practice at home." Libby Holman, that singing girl who improves so tremendously on Helen Morgan...
...Newark, N. J., a Mrs. Mary Galabrese went into the mixing room of her husband's bakery, saw feet sticking from a stalled doughmixer, called police and firemen. The dead man was Gianto Darn, a worker in the bakery...
City Manager Sherrill warned them against entering homes as firemen on inspections and then suddenly transforming themselves into policemen to arrest Cincinnati's evildoers thus detected. Oldtime politicians who deplore the lack of politics in Cincinnati's form of government charged that the new system would reduce the efficiency of the fire department, predicted that Cincinnati might be swept away in an avenging holocaust...