Word: caine
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...over half a century Cain's Transfer Co., Inc. has hauled scenery from darkened Manhattan theatres to its maw of a warehouse. For almost as long, "Gone to Cain's" has been a brutal euphemism for a flop. Last week the famous graveyard was itself interred...
Edwin D. Alford, San Marino, California; Robert H. Cain, Melrose; Peter C. Coggeshall, Darlington, South Carolina; James A. Dearborn, Brookline; Lawrence A. Hart, New York, New York; Charles A. Haskins, Cambridge; Albert P. Heiner, Salt Lake City, Utah; Thomas M. Hill, Bucksport, Maine; Samuel Y. Johnson, Pasadena, California; William M. Mack, Cambridge; Thomas H. T. Morrow, South Tacoma, Washington; Karl B. Rusch, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
...youngsters who light fires, break windows, and raise Cain generally are not inherently wicked, but merely at a loss for something better to do. Their energies, which in many cases are leading them to lives of crime or indolence, could be directed into constructive channels if means were provided. If the University shows more concern in the fate of these urchins, if P. B. H. continues to remember where charity begins, undergraduates may have fewer pangs of conscience when they walk from Dunster or Eliot to the Yard...
...pound class: Ross (H) defeated Cain (B), by decision...
...December day in 1933 when Repeal killed the 18th Amendment, Manhattan theatre critics made an almost unanimous critical suggestion. They suggested that Tobacco Road be relegated to Cain's warehouse, morgue of plays that die aborning. Reviewers wrote off the play's characters as scum, the play itself as "clumsy, rudderless, callow, repulsive...