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With sausage suitcase, easel and the iron-tipped cane that he bitterly called "my buttonhook," 'Ennry would frequently move into a brothel, stay there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company...
...society's shield: a button bearing a top hat with U. S. A. on the crown and a cane and gloves rampant on a blue field. Its slogan: "He who walks backward never stubs...
...knocked him to the pavement, bloodied his nose. King George and the Cabinet stood like ramrods, eyes front, ignoring the scuffle (see cut). Queen Elizabeth gasped, clutched at her throat, then relaxed when danger was past. The tousled protestant turned out to be one Stanley Storey, escaped from the Cane Hill Insane Asylum on Sept...
Captain Russ Allen limped on the field with the much needed aid of a cane and took his place in the press stands definitely a side-line figure until after the Davidson game, although he may be able to take a limited part in practices later this week. Chief Boston reported in uniform, but he didn't look very much like the Tiger hunter he was last Saturday. The exact nature of his injury is not easy to determine from his actions, it seems to be mainly a matter of favoring the spot that hurts most. Whether...
Welterweights (147 Ibs.) have only one champion, Chicago's clever 27-year-old Barney Ross who has held the title before and since he abdicated his lightweight title two years ago. Current ranking contender is fierce-faced Ceferino Garcia, a Filipino sugar-cane cutter armed with a looping right-hand punch supposedly suggestive of cane cutting and known as the "bolo punch." Two years ago in a nontitle fight Garcia knocked Ross down in the first round, but Ross outboxed him for the decision on that occasion. He did so again in a second (over-the-weight) meeting...