Word: canings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later to painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This time he gave the painter no peace, coming day after day with questions and suggestions. Once the terrible-tempered Florentine threatened to throw the Pope down off the scaffold; once the Pope actually beat the painter with his cane...
Flicking out his words like whisks of a schoolmaster's cane. Attlee moved what amounted to an either-or ultimatum to the Bevanites: disband and shut up, or get out of the Labor Party. And no argy-bargy about what is or is not a party-within-a-party. "You can't define an elephant," snapped Attlee, "but you can recognize one when...
...ideological preoccupations and messages of his three previous films, Monsieur Verdoux (1947), The Great Dictator (1940) and Modern Times (1936), and goes back to the simple little tramp-meets-girl, loves-girl, loses-girl theme of his famed silent movies. But Chaplin no longer plays the tramp with the cane, battered derby, brush mustache and oversized shoes. In Limelight he is a dapper, though slightly seedy (and in heavy stage make-up rather repulsive) clown in spats and velvet-collared coat. Only a few reminders of the old tramp remain in a couple of music-hall sequences...
...swathed his injured spine, holding his neck and back rigid. His weight had dropped from 111 to 90 pounds. His legs and one hand seemed so paralyzed that he could scarcely move. He was a pitiful sight as he hobbled along, supported by his faithful wife and a stout cane. Surprised as he was at the request, the gentle Abbé Louis Desprez, pastor of Chaumont, readily agreed to let Gilbert join the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes in search of a cure...
Crutches & Canes. Battered Paul Ryan, who is still so pain-ridden that he can sleep for only an hour at a time and can hobble only short distances on a cane, was already a success at 40, when he was disabled in the Chicago crash. Pennsylvania-born, he had worked as a roustabout in Oklahoma oilfields, earned an engineering degree at M.I.T., became a sales engineer for Shell, rose to president of Cleveland's National Refining Co. After the accident, Ryan sold out of the company, lived on courage and painkillers as he struggled to walk again...