Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Biggar is a thin-faced Scot. He owns a large farm near Dalbeattie, Scotland. He usually dresses in brown. He always carries a cane. He is reputed to be one of the world's best judges of fine cattle. Every year for the past eight he has taken a trip to the U. S. to decide which steer should be named Grand Champion at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago...
...hello-ing everybody. Wearing always a low stiff collar and an oldtime high-cut jacket, he carries like all good Bostonians a green bookbag, is always accompanied by "Phantom," a blind old spaniel that has to be guided across busy streets by the crook of Dr. Lowell's cane. Harvardmen know that their "Prexy" is rich, resolute, articulate, astringent; an authority on political science and campanology (the science of bells); A Lowell of Lowells, brother of the late Astronomer Percival and the late terrifying, cigar-smoking poetess Amy who used to proclaim: "I am the only member...
...last week flash-gunned for Banker John P. Morgan, camera-shy son of a camera-shy father. They got several fleeting shots, all with Mr. Morgan looking extremely annoyed. When the Daily News's man exploded his flash in Mr. Morgan's face, the latter raised his cane and cried: "You brute...
Coffee is down. So are Nicaraguan bananas, hardwoods, sugar cane. The result was a near-record registration and a landslide victory over Conservative former President Adolfo Diaz by the Liberal candidate. Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa. Along toward 3 a. m., when his triumph was conceded. President-elect Sacasa modestly declared. "This is a victory for Liberalism...
...again at sight of a photographer's tripod and plate-box. In many cases the cameraman, boldly marked with the badge of his trade, is barred at gates where the newsman, with camera concealed, may saunter in. As Jack Price says: "Nowadays a reporter can still carry his cane and have a camera tucked in his pocket." The adventures of news photographers can be fully as thrilling as those of newshawks. Ingenuity comes quite as much into play. Jack Price thinks the most ingenious stunt he ever saw was ''Crazy Johnny" O'Brien...