Word: caning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much-heralded "Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" along with ten other watercolors of the "Dreyfus Cane" by Ben Shahu have arrived at the galleries of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art and will remain on display until October...
...proper kind of inkwell, the scientific height and slope for a desk, a dustless chalk, a shineless blackboard, hygienic methods of ventilation-these school details and many another have been well thought out. But punishment is still crude, unscientific, oldfashioned. You cane one child, thwack another, smack a third. Why should chastisement not be up-to-date, simple, exact? So ran the musings of a smart Australian pedagog. Last week the startled Ministry of Education in Sydney received, and began to ponder, a strange result of his thoughts: a contraption of many wheels, dials, weights, levers, by which a cane...
Western Canada was shocked when Lawyer Machray, enfeebled by long illness, arose in Winnipeg's Provincial Police Court, leaning heavily on his cane, to be charged with theft. His peculations from University funds were now estimated at $901,175. In addition he was charged with stealing $60,000 from Heber Archibald, his former law partner. (The firm had gone bankrupt.) Begging a summary trial, Lawyer Machray pleaded guilty. Magistrate R. M. Noble, recalling huskily that for 25 years he had been a friend of the accused, passed sentence: seven years in the penitentiary...
...Thomas W. Miller who, as Alien Property Custodian, spent a year in Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Lobbyist Taylor saw overseas service, has four battle clasps with a silver star citation. His greatest feat was putting through the first Bonus bill in 1924. He carries a cane, wears a stubbly blond mustache, has an eye that pierces the boldest Congressman. His salary is $6,000; he earns it and more. His boast is that one word from him to Legion headquarters and a deluge of hundreds of thousands of letters and telegrams will pour...
Next afternoon at 3 p.m. while Fascists yelled their war cries in front of the Reichstag, Grandmother Zetkin was carried in the back door on a stretcher, lifted to her feet. Leaning on a heavy cane, she advanced, flanked on either side by a big-hipped Amazonian Red. Pain and fatigue made perspiration pour down the sunken cheeks of Clara Zetkin but her old eyes flashed. "I shall do my duty in strict accordance with the rules of antiquated parliamentarianism," she gasped, "because it is my duty to the German proletariat...