Word: cage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the night some person or persons unknown, armed with a very sharp saw, contrived to reach through the bars and saw the stem of the tree nearly in two, so that the tree itself drooped over the top of its cage. No motive could be ascribed for what was apparently an act of malicious vandalism, and there are no clues to the guilty party...
Another Wilson, this one C. A., in Houston, Tex., put a white rat in his pocket and got into a cage with a Bengal tiger. The enormous feline, striped with jungle shadow, smelled the trembling rodent in Trainer Wilson's pocket. Wilson was his friend, the rat his enemy. He stalked the rat, knocked Wilson down, struck savagely at the rat, wounded Wilson's side, tore Wilson's shoulder, was shot by zoo assistants. Wilson, wounded, recovered. The rat, unhurt, died of fright...
...birthplace, for Germany at the age of one. I have returned to make pictures for a year in Hollywood, following my success with U. S. audiences in Passion, The Last Laugh, Variety. Debarking from the S. S. Albert Ballin in Manhattan, I carried my pet mocking bird in a cage. Warned by newsgatherers not to let Hollywood 'get' me, I replied: 'Ah, I am Jannings! I go to Hollywood. I am still Jannings...
...only a slight push upward by a man suspended from it would free the wooden halves of the stocks. The purchase for such a push is provided by two rings on the bars inside the water cell, rings whose innocence is made apparent by using them to lower the cage of bars into the water cell...
...Seven Veils, was not quite all we dropped for from that mad, bad daughter of Herodias. To give credit where credit is due, her dancing far surpassed her acting, although in a fury--which seems to have been Salome's favorite mood--she was as sibilant as a cage full of pythons...