Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With sausage suitcase, easel and the iron-tipped cane that he bitterly called "my buttonhook," 'Ennry would frequently move into a brothel, stay there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company...
...knocked him to the pavement, bloodied his nose. King George and the Cabinet stood like ramrods, eyes front, ignoring the scuffle (see cut). Queen Elizabeth gasped, clutched at her throat, then relaxed when danger was past. The tousled protestant turned out to be one Stanley Storey, escaped from the Cane Hill Insane Asylum on Sept...
Captain Russ Allen limped on the field with the much needed aid of a cane and took his place in the press stands definitely a side-line figure until after the Davidson game, although he may be able to take a limited part in practices later this week. Chief Boston reported in uniform, but he didn't look very much like the Tiger hunter he was last Saturday. The exact nature of his injury is not easy to determine from his actions, it seems to be mainly a matter of favoring the spot that hurts most. Whether...
Welterweights (147 Ibs.) have only one champion, Chicago's clever 27-year-old Barney Ross who has held the title before and since he abdicated his lightweight title two years ago. Current ranking contender is fierce-faced Ceferino Garcia, a Filipino sugar-cane cutter armed with a looping right-hand punch supposedly suggestive of cane cutting and known as the "bolo punch." Two years ago in a nontitle fight Garcia knocked Ross down in the first round, but Ross outboxed him for the decision on that occasion. He did so again in a second (over-the-weight) meeting...
...Fully aware of the rumors that had escaped the ears of Franklin Roosevelt, the Post Gazette sent its eccentric, middleaged, ace political factfinder, Ray Sprigle, to Alabama to investigate the story as soon as Hugo Black was nominated. For Reporter Sprigle-who affects Western sombreros, carries a silver-ringed cane and likes nothing better than a job of conscientious muckraking-the assignment was a treat. His first dispatches were routine stories which contained principally the information that the Klan had supported Hugo Black in the 1926 election. Original plan was to run the articles before Justice Black could be confirmed...