Word: sewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better gags in "Movie Crazy" are visual, and the most inspired scenes need no sound at all. One such shows Lloyd, wearing one shoe and a-straw hat, pursuing his other brogan through a rainstorm as it is carried along in a gutter millstream to the inevitable sewer inlet. Later on, the hero inadvertently dons a magician's dress coat, complete with eggs, mice, sausage, rabbits, and the traditional squirting carnation, and has himself a time on a crowded dance floor...
...years after World War II, Whitney itself began to show alarming signs of going modern. Young soldiers came home, got into politics and began to run the town. They put through bond issues for new water and sewer systems, for paving and lighting the streets. Construction of the vast Whitney Dam began on the nearby Brazos River and new people thronged in. A hundred new houses were built...
...woman who ever finished that grueling event, she was given a trophy. Three weeks ago, as a warm-up for the Channel, she swam 14 miles from Manhattan's Battery to Coney Island, going a mile or more out of her way to avoid dirty water from a sewer...
Explained one sardonic sewersnipe: "I live here for my health. I have heart trouble and the doctor told me I should live at sea level." One sewer had a sign reading: "For Rent; Ten Cruzeiros." The "proprietor" said he rented the place at night "to couples." The police hauled 15 sewer-dwellers to jail, carted away two truckloads of makeshift furniture and cooking utensils, and unplugged the sewers...
...specialty of the subject, the authors have acquired a certain affection for bad smells. They tell with considerable sympathy how smelly chemicals often save human lives. For example, when a mine has an accident, the operators often dump ethyl mercaptan (which smells like rotting cabbage, garlic, onions and sewer gas) into its air supply. The awful stench circulates quickly through every passage and forcefully warns the miners to run for their lives...