Word: caning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viewed from the roof of the Casa Granda, the winter of 1923 or 1924, an endless procession, all moving to this rhythm, the snaking of parties of gayly costumed boys and girls, single or double file. All on foot?and stepping. Roustabouts from the docks, cane cutters from the fields, women from the tenderloin, ragamuffins from everywhere, all swinging to the beat of that endless tune, to me then nameless. Groups of gleeful boy volunteers furnish the music. Home-made instruments?bongos of nail kegs or other kegs with ends knocked out or of hollowed log chunks, manacas, claves...
Where it comes from I do not know. Perhaps old in Cuba, perhaps from nearby Haiti whence cane cutters come annually. Lie awake in the towns of Haiti in the still of night and drum beats of similar rhythm float down to you from the hills...
...little Master Robert With his wavy raven mane, In his cutaway and spats. And his topper and his cane...
...languages. Had City Lights been a failure, Hollywood would have been personally and bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Neither was it frightened. For though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives solely from the little man with the battered hat, bamboo cane and black mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior would probably be recognized by more people throughout the world than would recognize any other man's face, will be doing business after talkies have been traded in for television...
...From sugar cane...