Word: caning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capable of arousing nearly cost him his life and sent France careening around a sharp, dangerous political curve. In a car driven by Socialist Deputy Georges Monnet and with Mme Monnet at his side, Socialist Blum edged too close to a Royalist funeral procession. The militant mourners were young, cane-swinging stalwarts of the Action Franchise, supporters of the restoration as King of France of Monseigneur le Due de Guise, an exile in Belgium. The funeral was that of eminent French historian and publicist Jacques Bainville, a Royalist with a scoffing pen so sharp that he had been excommunicated...
...Modern Times" is of the same jolly crew as "City Lights" and "The Gold Rush". It is silent, and the lost art of pantomime finds a joyful revival. Charlie is so much more eloquent than if he were to speak in words! For with his cane, his derby, and his short moustache, with his wan smile, his angelic grin, his simpering indignation, and his dandy waddle, Charlie can discuss anything but metaphysics. When an ugly cop lowers a him his dumb show cries out, "All right, all right, officer, you needn't use force...
...Judging by its reception in Manhattan last week, Modern Times is likely to find a satisfactory niche in the winter program of U. S. cinema entertainment. It is a gay, impudent and sentimental pantomimic comedy in which even the anachronisms are often as becoming as Charlie Chaplin's cane...
...somewhat cryptic analysis to the photographs in the volume, readers may get an impression of an India far more serene than Katherine Mayo's words suggest. Pictures include queer ones of a holy man sitting comfortably on nails, a shot of the spiderweb suspension bridge, made of cane and rattan, that stretches 800 ft. across the Dihang River in Assam. Another holy man, dressed only in covering of thorns and spikes, is pictured twanging away cheerfully on a native banjo, while a holy woman of Benares is shown practicing devotion by staring into the sun without winking. Despite glimpses...
...Philippines. With the recent Hard Times, the issue became realistic. Cotton Congressmen were told by their constituents that Philippine coconut oil was a competitor with their cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. But the big importation from the Philippines is sugar from sugar cane, and that brought anguished wails from Louisiana sugarmen, howls of positive pain from sugar-beet growers of Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Michigan. With independence goes a U. S. duty on Philippine sugar which, unless it is tempered by U. S. Tariff Commission experts now probing the situation in Manila...