Word: caning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confused with the milk-curdling Scottish pipes. The medieval one-cane Italian pipe had not so shrill a timbre...
Died. Edwin Leland James, 61, for 19 years managing editor of the New York Times; of a heart disease; in Manhattan. Jaunty, cane-swinging, Virginia-born "Jimmy" James first cubbed for the Baltimore Sun, became a regular Times byliner with his World War I front-line dispatches, stayed in Europe for the Times until called home in 1930, built up the Times's crack foreign staff. One of his best-known leads was on the 1918 Armistice: "In a twinkling, four years of killing and massacre stopped as if God had swept His omnipotent finger across the scene...
Brandishing his cane, McKellar thundered, "I'm going to beat the tar out of you." Dunlap, 48, retorted, "If you were 40 years younger, I'd knock your teeth down your throat," and walked out of McKellar's office unbeaten, unharmed...
...fighting between the freshmen and sophomores is so disorganized and spontaneous, however. The annual "canespree" in October is a traditional event. The name descended from ancient times, and has since lost most of its meaning, but it refers to a three-foot cane that one of the two classes tries to wrest from the grasp of the other. Nowadays the canespree has become a much larger series of events, and the name-event is not as important as the tug-o'-war or the track and field events that now make up the program...
...Good old Winnie," "Good luck, sir," cried the crowds that pressed in on him as Churchill, beaming broadly, smoking a huge cigar and jauntily swinging a cane, called last week at Buckingham Palace to submit his new cabinet to the King...