Word: watchmen
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Tokyo realized, but not the rest of Japan. A poor telephone connection, the noise of the storm, caused radio broadcasters to believe that the child was a son. Gaily they announced the fact. In distant Japanese villages bonfires were set alight, barelegged, short-jacketed watchmen ran through the streets beating gongs. It was hours before the true facts were learned. Aghast at the error all the officers of Tokyo's central broadcasting station resigned, grimly realized that it was their traditional duty to commit harikari...
Along the right of way of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R. R. grows many a carefully-tended flower bed. The crossing watchmen must keep their little shacks trim and orderly, the engineers must carry repair kits and act as veterinaries for minor ailments of their Iron Horses. But all D. T. & I. employes are happy to do extra chores for they are paid above the standard railway scale...
...chain of room keys which belonged in a buffet drawer. Upstairs, in the bedrooms, furniture had been overturned and broken, closets and bureau drawers had been ransacked. Yet the housekeeper and six servants remembered hearing no unusual noises that night. No footprints were found in the garden. Two private watchmen in the street saw no intruder enter the house. Art objects and furnishings were missing, but jewels had not been disturbed...
...automobile driven by one Abe Schnider, Washington nighthawk, careened into and through the iron entrance gate at the southwest corner of the White House grounds. Abe Schnider's girl friends, terrified but unhurt, crept out to squeak and whisper over the damage. Rueful, Mr. Schnider rubbed his head. Watchmen soon haled the gatecrashers to court. Later in the morning Abe Schnider called at the White House. He was told that the White House's occupant and custodian would bring no charge against him if he would replace the bent gate. Grateful, fatigued, Mr. Schnider deposited $100 with...
...Part of them blow fresh air into the tunnel floor through vents, others suck vitiated air through ducts in the tunnel ceiling. Thus they change the tunnel air completely 42 times an hour and but 56 of the fans are needed to do so. Fire hazard is prevented by watchmen stationed every few score feet; and there are tunnel fire engines at each entrance...