Word: cage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real test which will be made tonight is that of a suitable goalie. The University Club has a strong cage-man in Learnard who vied with Farrel of Yale on Saturday night in making difficult and spectacular stops. Jackson, Elkins, and H. H. Newell '29, who will all probably get a try at the goal position for Harvard, will have to be in the best of form to match the opposing cageman...
...first years in Verona in the soldiers' barracks. The father was a "roughneck" but the mother was a lady, tired always, with poverty and childbearing. Tini herself was always hungry, used to skip school often to go to the circus people in the marketplace where she cleaned monkey cages in exchange for food. Soldiers change their stations often. It was in Graz that the Rosslers bought a decrepit piano for a dollar and Tini mended it with string and sealing wax; in a Graz convent that the Mother Superior gave her her first singing lessons; in Graz that...
...which spent about an hour and a half on the ice. No scrimmages have been held yet, but the practice consisted of some fast carrying of the puck by various forward lines, and checking by several different defense groups. Some time was also devoted to practicing shots at the cage which four men took turns in defending...
Thenceforward the story proceeds to get Sergey McTavish into more and more trouble. Finally he rescues an American called up before a shrewd Soviet Judge who has a parrot. Each prisoner must poke his forefinger into the parrot's cage. If parrot bites finger, the sentence is Death. Smart Sergey McTavish saves the American's neck by rubbing garlic on his finger, causing parrot to cringe, not bite...
Coach Horween and his gridiron forces took refuge from the fog and rain of Soldiers Field in the Le Baron Briggs Cage yesterday afternoon and there went through the first practice workout in preparation for the season's finale at New Haven on Saturday...