Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along the Panama coast he left his impress. There still is a Caledonia Bay and a Puerto Escocés. The San Blas Indians occasionally breed a blond child. When the San Blas and Choco medicine men want to carve a really imposing fetish on a medicine cane, they give long-nosed William Paterson a waistcoat, shirt, necktie, collar, buttons, striped trousers, paint his coat black or green...
...until the farm lobbies in Washington put their husky shoulders to the issue did Philippine independence make more than sentimental progress. Cane raisers in Louisiana, beet growers in Utah, were told that duty-free sugar from the Philippines was ruining their business. Philippine cocoanut oil was competing with domestic cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. These miscellaneous economic units were pulled together in one grand and wholly selfish drive to put the Philippines outside the U. S. tariff wall by means of making them a free and foreign country. Louisiana's loud Senator...
...helpless cripple, was lifted to the rostrum of the Democratic convention at Masison square Garden to nominate Alfred Emanuel Smith for the Presidency in 1924. ¶ How he discovered the mineralized waters of Warm springs, Ga. as a cure for his infirmity in 1924. ¶How a cane had replaced crutches when he again nominated Al Smith at Houston in 1928. ¶How he was first hailed as "our next President" by friendly Georgians at Warm Springs following his 1928 State election. ¶How he was re-elected Governor by the biggest majority on record...
...arena was crowded as Judge Biggar watched beef on the hoof waddle by. Among the 750 was many a Hereford, returned to prominence. Finally the Biggar cane, at last removed from the Biggar arm pointed to a sleek fat Hereford from Texas, named Texas Special. Owner William Largent of Merkel, Tex., let out a whoop...
...inherit his money. Instead of making a will he decides to distribute his fortune, $1,000,000 at a time, to persons selected at random from the telephone directory. The first million goes to a butter-fingered salesman (Charles Ruggles) in a china store. He buys himself a cane, invites his employer to watch him use it on shelves of tableware. A prostitute (Wynne Gibson) takes a room in an expensive hotel and goes to bed alone, without her stockings. A forger (George Raft) is unable to find anyone who will cash a good check for him. He ends...