Word: canings
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...Large, heavy knife resembling a broadsword. Used by Spanish Americans for cutting cane, clearing paths, or for self defense...
...perfect opportunity for subjective citizens and obscure congressmen to assail the navy. Few there are who would advocate the abolition of the automobile to save pedestrians, but the demand that submarines be done away with was but one of the cries of a silly squabble that one cane only hope will be obscured behind the bravery of the victims and the divers who attempted their rescue...
Died. Adolphe Valery Coco, 70, one-time (1916-1924) Attorney General of Louisiana, intrepid investigator of the Mer Rouge slayings (1922) involving Ku Klux Klan. It was he who once, unarmed, defended a prisoner from a mob by drawing a line on the ground with his cane and saying: "The first person who crosses that line I kill...
...Here's my chance, I thought. 'Are you Petlura?' I asked him. He did not answer, simply lifting his heavy cane. I knew...
...Francisco Orchestra for $10,000 a year. There followed months of strife. Friends of the Hadley régime refused to accept him, called him "pro-German," made others suspect. He saw, heard, spoke no evil, swung his great bulk onto the platform, turned his back, hung his cane on the rail before him and made big music till the Cort Theatre was too small and his neighbors forgave him. Now at 55 he has the energy...