Word: caning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article about Headmaster C. A. Elliott of Eton is excellent, but the term "cane" is technically incorrect. Caning at Eton is only carried out by certain privileged boys of the upper school, and is essentially a punishment for delinquencies connected with the discipline of the boarding houses and on the playing fields. It has nothing to do with academic offences...
Born in Peru, Ind., 56-year-old Yale-man Porter has commuted for years between show business and the showiest international society. A riding accident broke both his legs in 1938, but, having gritted through 30 operations, he can now get around without a cane. Among his hit musicals: Fifty Million Frenchmen, Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, Jubilee, Red Hot and Blue. Having launched what may prove his biggest hit, he plans a new show for the same producers in the fall-but first he will motor on the Continent and cruise in the Mediterranean...
China's new Premier, Sun Fo, stepped gingerly from a shiny black Packard at the entrance to Nanking's green-tiled Executive Yuan one morning last week. Leaning on a cane to take the weight off his left leg, from which a two-pound tumor had recently been removed, he limped up three flights of stairs to an unheated conference room,'where his cabinet waited formally to assume office...
...justice was swift-he could expel or cane offenders with the same sort of severity that has made Etonians tremble for five centuries. But he sometimes showed a compassion all his own. "That was a very understandable transgression," he would say to an offender, blinking sympathetically behind his spectacles. Then he would add: "One thousand lines," and send the boy to write out his punishment...
...wasn't just students that bothered Lamont's watchdog. A very distinguished professor, cane under his arm and camel's hair coat over a business suit, showed up at 11:30 one night. He explained that he was so busy in the day-time that he hadn't had a chance to look over the library until just then...