Word: caning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright-eyed little man with the high silk hat and the flaring beard seemed to be everywhere last week, carrying his gold-headed cane and dog-eared Old Testament, and speaking a fine, clear Dublin English. Everywhere he went, his people flocked around him to ask his blessing and welcome His Eminence Isaac Halevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel...
...young captain in tennis shoes, a grimy sweat rag at his waist, said nervously: "Kung-fei hen li hai [the Communist bandits are very fierce]." In a day-long battle to the northwest, his regiment had lost a third of its men. The captain crouched, swung his silver-knobbed cane in imitation of a Tommy gun. "They came from all sides," he said, "five, ten men against a single gun. What could...
Left alone, Charley withdrew more & more. He grew old and stooped, needed a thick cane to get him around. He refused to buy new clothes, kept only two old kerosene stoves for heat in wintertime. There seemed to be only one great pleasure still left in his life: Charley liked to be with the kids of the John Kerr Primary School near his home...
...right of an Episcopal bishop to fire a minister under his jurisdiction. As he listened to his friend, Justice Meier Steinbrink, deliver the long decision upholding the provisions of Episcopal canon law, old Rector John Howard Melish, 74, slumped forward in his seat and rested his forehead on his cane...
From there on, Webb keeps himself and the audience highly entertained. He wears his freshman cap with the same deadpan elegance he gives to his cane and his well-draped suit. In his job as hasher, he can toss up crepes Belvedere or lecture the young women of the sorority on table manners. At the piano in the sorority parlor, he can play Beethoven or boogie, but he prefers the works of Belvedere. His biggest, and perhaps funniest, moment comes at the Freshman-Sophomore track-meet when he lays aside his dog-eared book, rolls his well-creased trousers above...