Word: caning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orleans Item eleven months ago, he had high hopes of uprooting the morning Times-Picayune and the evening States from their dominating position in the New Orleans newspaper field. But Northerner Stern found that Southerner Leonard Kimball Nicholson * had rooted his two newspapers as firmly as sugar cane; Meanwhile Stern's heavy investments in a bigger staff and a new Sunday edition failed to make the expected handsome payoff: in recent weeks, Stern fired or dropped 13 staffers, was reportedly losing heavily on his Sunday paper. Last week the Item (circ. 99,658) got a helping hand against...
...President beamed and waved his gold-headed cane at the applause and finished his hike without drawing a deep breath; he topped the day off with a speech (see above) to 30,000 people who had gathered along the Mississippi riverfront to dedicate St. Louis' new park, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial...
Last week, after 13 years of testing on animals and men, Chicago's Abbott Laboratories announced that it was putting Dr. Sveda's synthetic sweetener on the market under the trade name Sucaryl Sodium. It is, say the producers, 30 to 50 times as sweet as cane sugar and has no food (caloric) value...
Queen Victoria was leaving Cambridge House in London one day in 1850 when a lunatic gave her a whack on the head with a cane, raising a nasty bruise. Popular
...production is run-of-the mill. Irving Harmon, the featured comedian, succeeds in milking a number of laughs from such standard skits as the phone booth routine, the twice-rented hotel room and the wishing wand gimmick. Harmon, who walks on his heels and wields an educated cane in the best W. C. Fields manner, salvages the comic aspects of the show...