Word: malacca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...involves, however, some excellent villainy on the part of the niece's mother (Beatrice Terry, niece of the late great Dame Ellen Terry) as well as homely humors by her grandmother (Mrs. Jacques Martin). Mr. Connolly is frequently ludicrous as the thwarted swell who buys a malacca stick but is forced to hide it in his trouser leg until he gets out of sight of his less extravagant relatives...
...British press also discussed Mr. Chadbourne's cravat, his preference for cigarets v. cigars, and described the malacca walking stick and bulldog tenacity of Mr. Swope...
...Rome-builder Kobler? He is nearly 52 years old and has never been a newspaper reporter. He dresses smartly, carries a malacca stick, and speaks in a Milt Gross accent. He lives in one of the largest apartments on Park Avenue, Manhattan. Once, his charming wife expressed a fancy for square jewels; he bought for her an emerald both square and huge. Typical of him is the fact that when he first asked Mr. Hearst for the American Weekly advertising job he pulled out a fist-full of advertising contracts already signed and at a higher rate...
...Albert Henry Wiggin occupied this position at the Chase National Bank, from 1911 to 1918, and again from 1921 to 1926* under the title of President. He occupies it now, astute observers suspect, in his title of Chairman of the Board. Spruce and quick-witted, whenever he waves his malacca wand he waves it with invariable accuracy at whichever younger brother to Cinderella best deserves the good luck of recognition...
...Winston 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...