Word: caning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like this. School, it is like big sugar-house. It crush and maul us and spin us round. And we go out sweet like sugar. . . . Life, it is like this too. It whip us and pound us, but we come sweet like sugar. . . . We might come like bagasse. Just cane with all the juice crushed...
...writes Dr. John Earle Uhler in a novel, Cane Juice, which he published last month.* A Yankee, born in Media, Pa. forty years ago, he had gone to Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) to be a member of its English department after teaching for eleven years at Johns Hopkins. He admitted he wished to "write a lyrical story of Louisiana life." He visited Louisiana bayous, talked to Creoles and Cajun folk, watched them at work in sugar-houses. Last week Dr. Uhler's cane juice was seething, fermenting angrily...
Dealing with the career of an uncouth but righteous and ambitious Cajun who makes good at Louisiana State, Cane Juice is earnestly, sometimes ably written. Like many another contemporary novel of student life, it introduces toping and lechery. There are observations on the sugar industry (Louisiana State has an Audubon Sugar School) and in the end the hero wins a refined girl ("union of sweet nurtured cane with the rough stock of the wilderness") and is indicated as a potential sugar tycoon...
...Baton Rouge priest, Rt. Rev. Mgr. F. J. Gassier, read Cane Juice with rising indignation. Last fortnight he circulated a mimeographed attack upon it. Excerpts: "Utter ignorance of Creole customs. . . . Did the author perchance pick his 'young ladies' in a bawdy house? . . . Caricature. . . . Unsullied reputation of our Creole maidens. . . . Nauseating. . . . Filthiness. ... A monstrous slander of the purest womanhood to be found in the U. S. . . . Slimy animalism and mental filth. . . . The author might be a handsome young man for aught we know. The skunk also is a beautiful animal...
...barrels in which they have secreted themselves, the Marx Brothers undertake to distress the other passengers. Harpo, on a kiddy-car, slides about the deck with evil looks for all. He captures and becomes the friend of a frog, which he keeps in his hat. He carries a cane which has a horn at one end, for no reason. Chased by the mate, he dives behind the curtain of a Punch & Judy show and pokes his shaggy head out in expressions of derision and despair. Groucho Marx makes friends with a gangster, throws a revolver into a pail of water...