Word: caning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stomach ache." He moved the scene of his practicing from the Merion club to parts unknown, to escape mobs of admiring gawkers. Later he returned to Merion, to take low score honors for the first day of the qualifying round with a 69 (one under par). "This cane," bellowed Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley on Boston Day last week, in a voice audible for blocks along Boston's Tremont Street, "is one of three known as Constitutional Big Sticks. Three canes were cut from an elm tree which grew on the spot [battlefield of Lexington, Mass.] where...
...Gallon Glaser. One of the Major's articles related: "In December 1927, a man named Matthew Quay Glaser was announced at my office. He was a large, robust individual in a noisy suit of clothes. In his hand was an immense cane, and atop his head was a ten-gallon hat which remained there as he pumped my hand effusively. ... In a voice that would have sounded loud in front of a Coney Island tentshow he enlightened me at length about his magnificent accomplishments. . . . He informed me that he had been delegated by Senator Curtis as his [Curtis...
...deep into marital conditions, to quibble over the custody of children. Over 60, Judge Bartlett is happily married, the father of three daughters and a son. Short, benign, he wears his long white hair bobbed across the back, bald in front. He smokes a pipe, carries a light cane, affects black string neckties and Quakerish felt hat. He lives three blocks from the courthouse in a big rambling house, open to all, keeps no servant, is familiarly called "Judgie". He attends Reno's endless round of cocktail parties, socializes with the city's smart divorce-seekers, declares...
...Empire in the New World. Dominicans are prouder than Mexicans of their Spanish blood. Actually over half the population is Mulatto. They pay no taxes. The government struggles along on a 60% tariff on all imports collected for it by a U. S. customs agent, William E. Pullman. Sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, cocoa are their only important crops. World overproduction has ruined all four. A $30,000,000 loss is not a disaster to such a country, it is Calamity. Dominicans wandering in the stench of burning corpses last week took some comfort in the fact that cathedral, palace, fortress...
Although ailing of late years and compelled to use a cane, Amy Leslie still bristles with nervous energy. She appears at first nights gowned in brilliant reds and greens, frills and feathers. Her critiques can still be as caustic as complimentary. She travels only in taxicabs, often taking the cab driver in with her when an important purchase is to be made. She admits any age up to 85. Although she is reluctant to discuss her history prior to the publication of her forthcoming memoirs, these facts are known of the life & times of Amy Leslie: She was born...