Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting with Rudy Vallee. At the other end of his range of acquaintances is Mr. T. S. Eliot, whose poetry he greatly admires. Among his more flamboyant memories he can count a canoe-ride in Kittery Bay with Eliot, the latter dressed in a derby and spats, with a cane. Incidentally, his house in Kittery he shares with the artist Russell Cheney, and he is himself no inconsiderable amateur of various arts. His strongest taste in painting is for the early Italians, El Groce, Cozanne and Pieasso; a truly modern roster
...fact that the Master of Adams House is sporting a cane and favoring a swollen ankle should evoke no surprise if one considers the rigors of a Ping Pong tournament. Technical parlance for the damaging manoeuvre is said to be "Reaching for a wide one." There is no substance to the rumor that Professor Baxter stubbed his toe on a copy of the "Ironclad Battleship...
...Cardenas' famed museum of early Cuban relics fell. Members of the ABC revolutionary society, police and soldiers went out potting for the storm-spawn of looters, killed five in Havana, making the hurricane's total score more than 80 dead. By destroying enormous crops of sugar cane, blowing down sugar warehouses, it slightly alleviated Cuba's glutted Sugar situation...
Throughout Cuba the labor unions, released after eight years' suppression, were agitating among the unorganized sugar-mill and cane field workers of the interior, who get an average wage of 20? a day. Demanding an increase to 50? a day, the labor leaders called strikes all through the interior, began to recruit by force and intimidation. Violence flared up in other Cuban industries...
They are Ted and Lulu Hackett, happy hoofers whose act improves when small Ted Jr. (Jackie Cooperj is old enough to swing a cane. The Hacketts make the mistake of never changing their routine. Young Ted marries a danseuse (Madge Evans), takes to tippling and "chasing." She dies in an accident. He dies in the War. The old Hacketts add their grandchild to the act, watch him grow up into a Hollywood juvenile. When he misbehaves instead of going to the studio, old Ted Hackett pulls himself out of a lady's bed, packs...