Word: caning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From London, John Steele cabled the Chicago Tribune that Mr. Tunney was suffering from delusions of persecution, that he turned on a young man in the Strand, shook his cane, and said: "Look here, young man, if you are following me I am just about likely to hit you over the head with this stick...
Newsman Steele concluded: "In the interest of Anglo-American amity it is hoped that Tunney does not carry out his intention of winding his cane about the neck of some persistent scribe, because the English are peculiar about such little matters, and likely would send Mr. Tunney to the jug, ex-champion or no ex-champion, Lauder millions or no Lauder millions.* And that would be some story...
...many a week, reports had sifted through that 1929 would see the lifting of Cuban restrictions on production of sugar cane. Producers had made calculations, had figured that Cuba's sugar crop, now over 4,000,000 tons, without restriction would reach 4,500,000, perhaps 5,000,000. Yet U. S. sugar men frowned, last week, when the conservative Journal of Commerce (N. Y.) reported the word "determined" as issuing from the Presidential mouth of Cuba's Gen. Gerardo Machado y Morales. Still frowning, sugarmen considered an appeal to Congress to boost tariff rates, another appeal...
First Straw. As everyone knows, cane sugar producers in Louisiana must fight diseases, blights. Untiringly, U. S. government experts have sought hardier, sturdier varieties of cane. And last week the Department of Agriculture announced results of an 11,100-mile tour of exploration through Papua and New Guinea, by air plane, canoe, foot. Explorer E. W. Brandes had discovered 167 varieties of sugar cane...
...present at Blarney Castle, last week, when the petty Sultan of Muscat (Arabia) visited the Blarney Stone and emplanted a most peculiar kiss. Mr. Yamamoto was in a position to reveal that the Sultan of Muscat gingerly placed in contact with the Blarney Stone only the tip of his cane and then cautiously kissed the stick's big gold handle...