Word: caning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mowbray, indeed, deserves much credit. Sole representative--except for that triumphant moment when Mr. Clive, himself, around the stage (deafening applause) of the masculine in a dramatic matriarchy, he adjusted his bat wing tie, leaned on his cane, angled his hat, was, in fact, the life of the party. Yet one cannot forgive him those lines--or Gertrude Jennings either--"Do you remember your parents? Then I suppose they died before you were born." Men have walked the streets of Brockton for less than that...
Vastly more solid is the International Harvester Co., which makes practically every tool the farmer may need: beet pullers manure spreaders cane mills motor coaches coiled springs motor truck units corn bundlers movers corn cultivators plows corn pickers potato diggers corn shellers rakes corn shredders reapers cream separators culti-packers seeding machines engines side rakes ensilage, cutters speed trucks grain binders sweep rakes grain headers tedders harrows threshers harvest threshers tillage implements hay loaders tractors hay presses hay stackers twine listers wagons, etc. These are made at plants in Chicago, Rock Falls, Canton (Ill.), Ft. Wayne, Richmond (Ind.), Akron, Springfield...
...publisher's spring lists contain many a standard commodity. Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim's vast museum now includes The Golden Beast (Little, Brown). Miss Ethel M. Dell submits A Man Under Authority (Putnam). Harvey O'Higgins has a successor to Julie Cane in Clara Barron (Harpers). Irvin Cobb's new tales, more pensive than usual, are all On an Island That Cost $24 (Doran). Katharine Haviland Taylor is out again, with Stanley Johns' Wife (Doran), and Albert Payson Terhune with Treasure (Harpers...
...Eight years ago when I was in the Department of Agriculture as an investigator, I was sent to the Philippines to study certain mildews which were most destructive to the corn and sugar cane crops of these islands. At this time very little was known of these parasites, and although the people of the Philippines were not particularly excited about it, the Department of Agriculture realized the danger of the disease being imported into the American corn belt and thereby destroying a crop which yields an annual revenue of two or three billion dollars. I therefore spent two years studying...
...Japanese policeman waved them back. The tall swart man exclaimed impatiently, "I am the Brazilian Ambassador!" and strode on. Two policemen rushed up. Swiftly Ambassador R. de Lima Silva rapped one of them across the knuckles with his cane, and as the other still came on whacked him over the head. Then the crowd rushed him, his dog, his wife...