Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warm afternoon in May, John J. Pershing stepped out of a limousine at the White House and clumped across the porch leaning on his cane. France had been invaded. Photographers raised their cameras but the old man wrathfully lifted his cane...
...cameras clicked until Black Jack put his cane aside and drew himself to attention-grey Homburg untilted, old eyes straight, grey mustache clipped, chin drawn in, black suit pressed to razor edges, black shoes gleaming. Then he wheeled and marched inside to talk with the President. A newsman said softly: "Here we go again...
...Roman Catholic convert of his day. A devotee of beer and wine, he weighed between 300 and 400 Ib. Once, when he politely heaved himself up in a crowded bus, three women took the proffered seat. A lover and highly successful practitioner of romantic balladry, Chesterton carried a sword cane and a 14-in. clasp knife under his flowing cape. Assailants might have found him hard to locate, for he often could not locate himself: his absentmindedness was prodigious. He was sometimes obliged to buy a copy of his own weekly (G.K.'s) to find the address...
...Outdoor furniture (it outwears rattan), cane seats for subways, trolleys and busses...
Last week the top U.S. soil expert, Soil Conservation Director Hugh Hammond Bennett, saluted Faulkner. Bennett pointed out that some pioneering farmers (notably United Fruit Co. and some Cuban sugar-cane growers) have long used a system of cultivation like Faulkner's, called "stubble mulch." The moldboard plow, agreed Bennett, is doomed, except for some special crops and uses...