Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mac Harris, 92, bearded, cane-twirling ex-slave, idol of famed Beale Street during the South's Reconstruction, onetime "king of gamblers" along the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans ; in a shabby flat in Memphis...
...grandpa, as big and rugged as Ed is small and quiet. But it was Mike's son, Eugene F. Moran, 75, chairman of the board and Ed's uncle, who chugged the company into big business. An elegant dresser who shocked tugboaters by carrying a cane, he boasted that his tugs could tow anything anywhere. Said he: "Those big ones of ours could pull the Statue of Liberty down to the South Pole and back...
...massive Negro woman jumped up, marched up to the doctor. She was a rehabilitated Deaver alumna. She stood erect, held up her now unneeded cane. "Dr. Deaver," she shouted hoarsely, "I want to present you with this stick. Thank you, doctor, thank...
...Alexander Pope's famous and munificently rewarded translation (1725) in heroic couplets (iambic pentameter) was a polished poem, but no more an equivalent to Homeric Greek (dactylic hexameter) than a silver-headed cane is to a flight of arrows...
...several occasions during the hearings, John Lewis had had to reassert the majesty of his person. On Wednesday, when a cameraman tried to take his picture he swung his cane and dented the cameraman's reflector. On Friday, when a bailiff had the temerity to tell him to take off his hat as he stalked back into Judge T. Alan Goldsborough's court after lunch, he simply ignored the fellow. He removed his coat, folded it with exaggerated care. When he was good & ready, he took off his large hairy black hat and sat glaring in front...