Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd on the stairs and on the landing were pressed together like stalks of sugar cane in a hydraulic press. They were crushed together that way for half an hour...
...married shortly before he went off to war. Off the gangplank, he got down on his hands & knees, kissed the ground. "This I vowed to do if ever I saw American soil again," he explained gravely; "sometimes out there we're not so sure. . . ." Clutching a native-made cane decorated with "real Jap teeth," he told about his blistering nightlong battle in a shell hole (TIME, Dec. 14), described his exhibition bout with a native champ. "It was murderous," said Corporal Ross, referring to the exhibition bout. ". . . This baby didn't mess around, and I was sort...
Last week he had an additional worry: his reed supply. The cane from which oboe reeds are made grows only in the glens around the town of Fréjus in southern France. Until the defeat of Hitler, Tabuteau's career rests on a dwindling hoard of a few hundred twigs of cane kept on a Philadelphia shelf...
...relatives of the Salmaggi family who visit in droves of 40 or 50 at a time. An imposing 6-ft. figure, Salmaggi stalks Manhattan's streets in spats., a hat two feet in diameter, sporting a glittering diamond-studded lapel pin and a silver-headed cane that once belonged to Caruso. But in 1932 Impresarío Salmaggi left his company stranded in Chicago, having paid them off in unsigned checks...
...dance routines, that bring them back to World War I days, and the picture may even manage to convince live agers that the old boys had something. Joan Leslie provides the artistic requirements neatly, and Walter Huston and Richard Wherf do nice jobs as well. Cagney even hurdles a cane a la Cohan, and gets over it safely...