Word: canings
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...cane mills...
...words rollick. The little Scot prances and taps them out with his cane as he sings. Two plump, white knees twinkle below his kilt, and the Puckish smile of Sir Harry Lauder becomes as irresistible as the merry light in his grey eyes. Soon one more audience has succumbed to Scottish magic and is lilting the chorus joyously...
...largely figures of speech-lifers were usually set free after 20 or 25 years. But even after 20 years he would come out an old man. He would have spent what are generally termed "the best years of a man's life" in the ignominious occupation of making cane chairs in a prison factory. If he came out in 1950-how many of the men who were boys when he was a boy would be still alive...
...Churchill is as pink and paunchy as Henry VIII. Finally, few would have been so hardy as to gaze upon the strong, burly figure of Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead and then remark that if he would only carry an ax instead of a Malacca cane he would make a capital headsman...
...vain Laborites tried to delay the break. Their leader, onetime Premier James Ramsay MacDonald, was still so weak (on his arrival from the U. S. last week) that he could not address the House, but merely hobbled in using a cane. Other Laborites, marshaled by Deputy Chairman of the Labor Party John Robert Clynes, spoke, but under the heavy drawback that they feared to seem to take the part of "Bolsheviks," "Reds...