Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirituals, politicians. He took readily to collegiate sweaters, rejected knickers as undignified. Having specialized in sociology, he hopes to make his people yearn for knowledge. Now the Kikuyu's prime ambition-which he achieves only by years of prying and pulling with coils of wire, disks of wood, cane pegs, gourds-is to make his ear lobes touch his shoulders...
...Glass Key (Paramount) is a figure of speech employed by Ed Beaumont (George Rait) to predict the situation in which his political boss, Paul Madvig (Edward Arnold), will find himself if he continues to dress up in silk hat and cane, trade his power for the daughter of a re-form Senator seeking reelection. Sleek, sardonic, imperturbable, Ed Beaumont follows Opal Madvig, Paul's daughter, to a midnight rendezvous with Taylor Henry, son of the Senator, gives the youth a kick in the shin and takes Opal home. Later, grimly stalking the streets, he finds Taylor Henry...
...McDowell entered the operating room, threw his hat, cane and coat on a chair, rolled up his sleeves, prayed: "Direct me, Oh God, in performing this operation for I am but an instrument in Thy hands and am but Thy servant. If it is Thy will, spare this afflicted woman...
...dancer, a designer, a comedian-were old hands from Broadway and not Union Square. Spry, mad-eyed little Esther Junger (Life Begins at 8:40), clad in bold costumes by Constance Ripley, appeals to other senses than that of social injustice when she performs wildly in the Cuban sugar cane. And shy little Jimmy Savo is most capable not when he is being beset by police, or starving in the street, or dying of appendicitis in a neglectful free clinic, but when he is up against his old comic difficulty of making a complicated and terrifying piece of machinery work...
Because Cuba was the chief beneficiary of the new sugar deal, Cuban sugar securities, many of them long since written off by investors as a total loss have come suddenly to life. Cuba Cane products, the island's largest producer, was reorganized last February as Cuban Atlantic. Francisco Sugar's 7½ bonds (in default) have jumped from 23? on the dollar to 44? since the year end. Certificates of deposit for Camaguey's 7% bonds soared from 2½? on the dollar to 12?. Manati's preferred stock climbed from $4 per share...