Word: caning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Synthetic milk made from soy beans, cane sugar, comstarch, cod-liver oil, calcium lactate, sodium chloride and cabbage water...
Into the Senate chamber shortly before noon one day last week limped William Scott Vare, Senator-suspect from Pennsylvania. His left side paralyzed, he leaned on a cane and the arm of his Philadelphia physician...
...startled as he passed through Princeton to have a rock crash through his car's window. Undergraduates swarmed about him, stopped his car, booed and jeered they knew not whom. Gravely Governor Larson got out, examined the shattered window, learned that the rioting students had just come from Cane Spree.* Goodnaturedly the Governor drove on, not waiting to see the students try to undress a besieged policeman...
President John Martin Thomas roguishly assured his Rutgers undergraduates gathered at a "pep meeting" on the football field that he would not carry his gold-headed cane to church until they had beaten Lafayette. Backs Tellier and Wilcox kept the cane in Prexy's closet. Lafayette 20, Rutgers...
...might a shrewd crook use a dignified manner, well-cut clothes, a gold-headed cane, proper language and a pretended association with a great public character to swindle a famed jeweler? One way might be to take the following steps...