Word: canings
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...Ruth gazed around the park. Out on the field, not far from her stood Joe DiMaggio, walled in by adoring reporters. Joe Louis stood close. Strolling around the new grass, having a swell time like college kids in Fort Lauderdale, were Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford. Clutching a black cane Toots Shor watched the men on the field. It must have seemed impossible to Toots that DiMaggio was 61, or that Mantle and Ford were entering middle age: they were kids when Shor was a legend. Now that they were legends, and Dan Topping wasn't even remotely related...
...London papers, the big story quickly became not George-Brown's resignation but press coverage of his subsequent tumble. After the Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Express all carried front-page photos of the elder statesman's dive, the lordly Times weighed in with a cane-wagging editorial scolding them for lack of "compassion and delicacy" in showing George-Brown "fallen in the gutter." Perhaps, the Times added sarcastically, the other papers "resented his infringing their monopoly" there...
...From the same family as philodendron and dieffenbachia (dumb cane), which are also poisonous...
That is pure fiction and simple inattention to detail. As Chavez says (on page 212) someone gave him a cane, "and by the time we got to Modesto where I celebrated my birthday on the fifteenth day of the march, I was okay...
...robbed William Alfred '38, professor of English, at gunpoint at his Cambridge home Friday evening, stealing two dollars and a cane given to him by the late philosopher Raphael Demos...