Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This last year was a hard one for the old gentleman. He had once walked with a magnificent leisure, his hands behind him clasped about his cane. He used to pause now and then to tip his bowler to someone, or to keep his cigarette chain going. But this winter there was no leisure in his walk; it was just a slow walk, and he was not smoking, and when he talked with you, he coughed at length, and the familiar smile left his face. Pierre de Chaignon la Rose had been a scholar and a dandy...
...still staring at the crowd's clothing when the big Negro ran past him. The black face was bisected by a toothy grin. Close behind came Mather, waving his cane and sputtering imprecations. Vag stepped back through the slit to get out of the way, and the change in light blinded him for a moment. When his vision cleared the radio was back on the mantel...
...agreed that Maeterlinck's mistress, Georgette Leblanc, should be the first to sing Meélisande. But the director of the Paris Opéra Comique had other ideas: he chose a young singer from the U. S., Mary Garden. When Maeterlinck heard the news, he set off, cane in hand, to give Debussy a thrashing. He gave the composer no more than a fright, but wrote to Le Figaro wishing Pelléas et Meélisande "immediate and emphatic failure." It turned out to be a success, and Maeterlinck stayed away from it. In 1920, persuaded...
...exception was Cuba. To prop up her sugar cane industry, Cuba asked for $50,000,000, settled for $11,200,000 and an upped sugar quota. When the sugar beet growers in the U. S. heard about the deal and their reduced 1941 quota (16% below 1940), they roared, charged the New Deal with wanting to kill the industry, quoted Secretary Ickes* to prove...
...young man, with a bowler hat, cane, flaxen moustache, and blue suit was looking at a gorilla in a zoo. . . . Perceiving that they were alone, the gorilla addressed the young man as follows: "You look very good-natured. Get me a suit like yours, only larger, a bowler hat, and a cane. We will dispense with the moustache. I want to get out of here. I got ambitions...