Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blind of New Orleans, who use cane for broom-making, will parade this week with signs reading: "We need China. All our cane comes from China...
...afternoon the procession continued: East 65th Street to Washington Square, Washington Square to 65th Street. Mrs. Roosevelt carried her prints, two Chinese lamps, a bowl of glass daisies. The vans disgorged their cargoes: an old cane-bottomed rocker that the President likes, a walnut highboy, a high chair, a barrel with a box of soap chips sticking...
Although it was another generation's children who promised to be good all week if they could see a Chaplin comedy, the bantam tramp with his flapping shoes, battered derby hat, jaunty bamboo cane, absurd black mustache, shabby, defiant clothes, is not dated. The craftsmanship of his effortless performance-the innocent waddle, the peculiar childlike kick, the desperate elegance, the poignant gallantry-is still high comedy...
...times were gay, uninhibited days when there was still an element of pour le sport in politics. "One old gentleman [Baron Christiany] made it a point at all social affairs which the President [Loubet] attended to throw rotten eggs at him" or bash in the Presidential topper with a cane. It was not long before Mme. Tabouis would see Premier Léon Blum's head bashed in by young Royalists...
...previous shows have, to revive vaudeville by reviving decrepit vaudeville acts. Here & there it is cluttered with bric-a-brac from the old homestead; otherwise Priorities proves a cozy, informal meeting place for two generations of actors. Among the veterans is Lou Holtz, who, carrying the same old cane, cracking the same old jokes with the same old skill, acts as master of ceremonies-and Willie Howard with his long-suffering look, low-comedy antics, and fine assortment of accents...