Word: caning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mighty steel framework of these sister ships, each 730 feet long and to be equipped each with five 600-horsepower heavy oil engines, capable of driving the ships 4,000 miles without refueling at 60 miles an hour. Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare explained, pointing with a chubby handled cane, just where the 100 passengers to be carried by each ship will berth, asserted that they will be served six-course dinners, 50 at a time in the dining salon, will promenade upon two decks between which will ply electric elevators...
...Freshman shall wear a Gown or walk with a Cane or appear out of his Room without being fully dressed and with his Hat," Later the headpiece comes in for further attention: "When ever a Freshman speaks to a Superior is spoken to by one he shall keep his hat off until he is bidden...
Captain Coady appeared at the field yesterday afternoon in civilian clothes and walking with a cane which he hopes to discard tonight, in order to be in uniform tomorrow. Kilgour was another who watched the practice in mufti. Bruen, substitute guard who has been out for two weeks, was dressed, but did no work. Guarnaccia did not report...
Castor oil was changed quickly from a liquid to a solid; cane sugar was turned white; cane sugar in solution was turned acid; common salt was turned brown and rock salt black-all by momentary exposure to the rays...
Died. Henry Luce Fuqua, 61, Governor of Louisiana since 1924; at the Executive Mansion in Baton Rouge; of internal gastric hemorrhages, suddenly. He had been a hardware merchant, cane sugar farmer, warden of the state prison. As Governor of Louisiana he had fought the Ku Klux Klan...