Word: caning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of Agriculture smiling from beneath its domed forehead; and there were the stone-chiseled features of the Secretary of State. He too smiled as he waited there, his head thrust forward over his little dark-suited body, his gray fedora held in one hand and his cane hooked over...
...some 1,500 excitable French people milled about the doors of the auditorium, pushing and shoving and grunting to get in and hear. Lady Doyle took the platform, expostulated, when over the stage came a bursting-party of rowdies, who jostled her rudely and tore down the draperies. Cane and papers in hand, Sir Arthur prepared to flee. Peace returned, however, and the famed ghost-seer was enabled to second everything that Mrs. Cadwallader had said...
Back of the last row in a famed Parisian theatre, an old man leaned heavily on his cane. A bushy white beard he had, and silken hair on his head, tres distingue...
...Theatregoers' Club, which ended last week in blind confusion. During the first part of the meeting the embryonic society elected a president, approved a constitution, and accepted temporary by-laws with the usual meek docility. Then some fair hared disciple of the law, leaning on his lacquered cane, raised the awful cry: "unconstitutional"! After that all the king's horses and all the king's men could not have put through an election. Motions were made, seconded, passed, and shortly superceded. Articles were drawn up, amendments proposed, compromises suggested, and through it all ran an undercurrent of rhetorical abuse. Harvard...
...eight o'clock, Herr Engel, carrying his food from the counter, was attacked by the truck-driver--one of the strongest men in Cambridge, it is said, and one of the most bibulous who punched Herr Engel in the left cheek. Herr Engel, resentful, struck his assailant with his cane. Both men picked up chairs but Herr Engel was able to parry only three of the legs, receiving from the fourth a gash across the eye. Herr Engel, it appears, threw the truck-driver under the table and although his assailent was withdrawn from the restaurant without further trouble...