Word: caning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Shall Not Bend." Next day, leaning on a cane, Jeanette told a rally of 60,000 antiCommunists: "None of us can be kicked down for long . . . This is not Prague, this is Berlin. We shall not bend till freedom is secure...
There was Giovanni Boldini's wispy Duchess of Marlborough propped stiffly on her spindly divan; Whistler had caught bewhiskered Theodore Duret wistfully holding a lady's opera cape in some carpeted corridor. And William M. Chase had come upon the bemonocled Whistler sporting an absurd little cane and striking his dandy's pose. But most of the Edwardians represented at the museum (the Phelps Stokeses, the Wyndham sisters, Mme. Gautreau, Miss Ada Rehan, Henry Marquand) had sought out, or been sought out by, the slickest and most fashionable painter of their day to immortalize them -John Singer...
...rockin' chair's got me Cane by my side Fetch me that gin, son 'Fore I tan yo hide...
...Bailey Circus opened its 1948 tour with a 33-day stand in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The show's biggest hit: Unus of Vienna, "gravity -defying equilibristic wonder" who balances himself on his forefinger on a glass ball, then does a one-hand stand atop a cane while twirling hoops with his feet, his mouth and his free hand...
...early popularity did not fool Nash; he was plagued by a sense of his own inadequacy as well as by ill health. Leaning on his silver-headed cane, he explored the English countryside, gradually learned to search out the geometry existing in what he saw, and to base his designs on that...