Word: caning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tokyo was on the streets to witness the passing of Crown Prince Hirohito on his way to a session at the Diet. At one point a young man broke through the police cordon, ran a few steps after the Crown Prince's automobile, and, raising a "cane-gun,"* fired at the Prince. The bullet shattered the glass in the machine but did not harm Hirohito. Viscount Tamemori Irlye, Chamberlain to the Prince Regent, was wounded slightly by the falling glass...
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...starting line-up on Saturday when the Freshmen meet the Yale Freshman football team at New Haven in the final game of the season, considerably dampened the Crimson hopes. Zarakov, who was badly mauled in the game with the Princeton Freshmen last Saturday, was hobbling about with a cane yesterday afternoon, and the chances for getting him in shape before the Freshmen face Yale are becoming poorer as Saturday draws near...
...Angeles, Charles S. Chaplin, screen comedian, obtained a temporary injunction preventing the showing of films in which one Charles Amador copies the old time Chaplin makeup, including his famous silly derby hat, half-portion mustache, baggy pants, enormous and weird shoes and nimble bamboo cane. Amador contended that neither Chaplin, nor anyone else, for that matter, is entitled to a monopoly of such a makeup, which was used among the natives "even in the time of King Tut-ankh-Amen." While a temporary injunction was obtained, there has been no permanent decision...
...Agriculture set out to become lexicographer and authority in its own field. It issued a list of some 20 official spellings and definitions including: " Thresh " instead of "thrash"; "Brahma" instead of "Brahman" (Zebu cattle); " kafir " instead of " kaffir " or " kaffir corn "; " milo " instead of " milo maise "; " sorgo " instead of " cane sorghum"; "potato" for "Irish potato," "round potato," "white potato," " common potato "; " sweet potato" instead of "yam" for the plant Ipomoea Batatas; "purebred," "broomcorn," "butterfat" to be spellt as single words without hyphens...