Word: cage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lioness with which Il Duce was once wont to pose and gambol publicly (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926). Moral of the tale: Signer Mussolini is now so unshakably in power that he no longer needs to bolster up the legend of his invincibility by posing in a lion's cage...
...would be out-diced in his conflict with Joseph Sweeney, the slickest dope-vender between Winnipeg and Vancouver. The sergeant, all ablaze in his scarlet tunic, had ventured into Hip Lung's basement laundry in search of murderers; and he was caught there like a brilliant parrot in a cage. Sweeney, a mean devil, had handcuffed the gorgeous fellow and was bossing him around at the point of a gun. Just as we were prepared to go home with the Sergeant's death-words resonant in our ears there was an odd occurrence. From two soiled-clothes baskets there sprang...
Both the University and Freshman baseball teams were able to take to outdoor diamonds yesterday afternoon for the first practice games of the training season. Owing to the rather soft condition of the turf, the Harvard nine, confined to the cage since last Tuesday when it went out for a brief session of batting practice, did not use the regular diamond, but limited itself to one of the class fields...
Yesterday for the first time this season, the University baseball squad was able to leave the shelter of the new cage to go through a brief workout on Soldiers Field. Although the outdoor session was brief and consisted solely of batting practice, it is hoped that the condition of the turf will improve rapidly enough during the next few days to let the squad have a full week of outdoor work before the opening game of the season with Boston University on April...
...hold down first base, while J. P. Chase '28 is stationed at the second sack. R. C. Sullivan '28 and Captain H. W. Burns '28 have been alternating at shortstop, although the latter will resume his regular post in center field as soon as the squad gets outside the cage, G. E. Donaghy '29, another veteran, has been assigned to third base...