Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared that the Government of Malta was "in a state of rebellion against the word of the Pope" and announced that "Catholics, therefore, without committing a grave sin, may not vote for the party of Lord Strickland." As a result of this pastoral the Governor, General Sir John Du Cane, postponed the election indefinitely...
...second stroke fell. How damnably timed they were! The time taken in handing the cane over to the next monitor and his run across the library was just enough for Colin to realize the sickness of the pain of the first blow without any of its sting wearing off. . . . Two more! How they could lay in! And only half. He began to feel sick...
Witnesses grew weary traipsing back and forth between the two committees all week long. Their testimony grew jumbled in the confusion of double hearings. But above the welter of words and figures, the loud police court methods of interrogation used by unfriendly Senators, the first poundings and cane thumpings of vehement witnesses, emerged the definite out lines of a real and important division of opinion on naval policy...
...member. In that time his politics changed from Progressivism through Independence to regular Republicanism. A frequent and violent speechmaker, in the House, he was not influential in legislative matters, made no great record. His usual seat was in the front row of the House where he sat with his cane between his knees and a large brass spittoon at his feet, into which he would spittoo with blind but unfailing accuracy. He did not mind when guides pointed him out to tourists as "the only blind Congressman...
...parents. A delicate child, he was set upon by a cow when he was three; this accident, says Biographer Sitwell, may have resulted in his subsequent deformity. As a grown man he could not dress himself, had to wear a stiff corset when he walked, supported himself with a cane. Precocious rhymester, ambitious poet, he intended to be not only great but "correct." At 25 he was one of the foremost literary men in England, received £5,000 or £6,000 for his translation of the Iliad. He was in love at least once, with Martha Blount...