Word: caning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Though he arrived third class, Hubert Fauntleroy Julian was not meanly dressed (see cut). He carried a cane and two pairs of gloves. "The Emperor and I are pals," he said, "and if you reporters doubt the logicability of that I will pay for a wireless to His Majesty...
Mark O. Prentiss, criminologist, prime organizer of the National Crime Commission, returned from lunching with Charles Henry Tuttle, New York Republican Nominee for Governor, to find one Charles Faye, 22, looting his Park Avenue apartment. Noiselessly he snatched a Turkish sword-cane from the wall, forced Charles Faye at the point of it into a seat, made him talk about himself, made him demonstrate how, with strips of vellum and a piece of tin, he had jimmied the apartment lock. When his arm grew tired Mr. Prentiss changed the Turkish sword-cane for an Italian billy. Faye said...
...wonder what it was you saw in him." The picture "showed him in a long frock coat, tightly buttoned, and a tall silk hat cocked rakishly on one side of his head; there was a large rose in his buttonhole; under one arm he carried a silver-headed cane and smoke curled from a big cigar that he held in his right hand. He had a heavy mustache, waxed at the ends, and a saucy look in his eye, and in his bearing an arrogant swagger. In his tie was a horseshoe in diamonds. He looked like a publican dressed...
...stomach ache." He moved the scene of his practicing from the Merion club to parts unknown, to escape mobs of admiring gawkers. Later he returned to Merion, to take low score honors for the first day of the qualifying round with a 69 (one under par). "This cane," bellowed Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley on Boston Day last week, in a voice audible for blocks along Boston's Tremont Street, "is one of three known as Constitutional Big Sticks. Three canes were cut from an elm tree which grew on the spot [battlefield of Lexington, Mass.] where...
...Gallon Glaser. One of the Major's articles related: "In December 1927, a man named Matthew Quay Glaser was announced at my office. He was a large, robust individual in a noisy suit of clothes. In his hand was an immense cane, and atop his head was a ten-gallon hat which remained there as he pumped my hand effusively. ... In a voice that would have sounded loud in front of a Coney Island tentshow he enlightened me at length about his magnificent accomplishments. . . . He informed me that he had been delegated by Senator Curtis as his [Curtis...