Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Voleurs! Assassins! "One bulky elderly Belgian with a cane in his hand was forcibly restrained from smashing it over the heads of two German prisoners by MPs. As they jumped into a British truck to be taken away for interrogation, he cried: 'Voleurs! Assassins!' He told his story determinedly. Three days ago in Marcourt-just across the river-German soldiers rounded up all the young girls and drove them like cows from soldier billet to soldier billet where they were forced to service the troops. One man-the speaker's brother-in-law-hid his two daughters...
...often exasperating practice. For a man who has lost an arm, even walking may be difficult at first, because of the change in his body balance. But the first day is made a thrilling occasion; when a man with an artificial leg is ready to walk without crutches or cane, the hospital staff and his fellow patients gather round, turn on music, applaud his first solo steps and his surprised, delighted smile...
...Angeles' Queen of Angels Hospital, his nose in a sling, roundly denying reports that he had fallen flat on his face. Fields: "I never reach my face when I fall flat because I can't get past my nose. ... I was leaning too heavy on a cane getting into bed. The cane slipped and I fell. It hurts quite a bit, y'know, and I have to resort to medicinal mixtures...
...Broadway, as a song-& -dance man, Holtz was a flop. He flopped again as a comic until he got the idea of telling his Jewish stories in blackface, clicked in vaudeville, climbed to George White's Scandals. Later Holtz abandoned cork for a cane, made vaudeville history by playing the Palace for ten straight weeks. The stockmarket crash dropped him "from a million to $732"; the decline of vaudeville drove him to pastures new; but after a dozen years of musicomedy, radio, Hollywood, show-producing, real-estate trading, today he has most of his million back...
When dapper, high-strung Brigadier General Jacques Leclerc, commander of the French Second Armored Division, burst into Paris, he carried a cane. It was the same cane with which, when he fought the Axis in Africa, he used to draw sketches in the sand at military conferences...