Word: cage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anachronisms. And La Mariniere is an anachronism. A prison ship sailing modern seas, is it not intriguing? Perhaps some Wilde will picture another bit of blue these voyageurs call their sky: perhaps some Lovelace will discover for them that even the penal isolation of French Guiana is not a cage. La Mariniere sails on. Classicists and romanticists, cynics and cooks, these branded brethren of despair continue their one determined and certain route. Outward bound delightful trip, and on the government. Bon voyage...
...first outdoor practice of the 1926 baseball season will be held this afternoon when the University and Freshman catchers and outfielders leave the confines of the cage for a short work-out on the Soldiers Field turf. Although much of the ground is still boggy a large enough expanse has dried up on one of the middle diamonds to make regular practice possible. The rest of the baseball squad, that is, pitchers and infielders, will not get out before the end of the week, at the earliest...
Five prisoners on trial for "willful but unpremeditated murder" spent most of last week locked in an iron cage set up in the modest Court of Assizes at the little town of Chieti among the Abruzzi hills. The prisoners, who thus suffered only the normal confinement prescribed for dangerous criminals by Italian custom, were beamed upon by dark-eyed and fashionably gowned Italian Signoras, of whom there were dozens in the court. Other admiring females had presented them with especially woven Fascist black shirts. Their carefully knotted black ties and cool indifferent bearing suggested that no undue alarm surged...
...fourth year that Coach Davison has been the Freshman mentor. He will be aided this year by Coach Mitchell of the University team. Coach Mitchell will devote an hour each afternoon to the yearlings while the weather forces them to go through their periods of practice in the cage. When they go outside on to Soldier's Field, he will devote one afternoon a week to furthering their development. The H.A.A. has no equipment on hand for Freshmen, so they are asked to bring out their own. Manager Sommers said last night...
Among the veteran infielders, who reported at the cage for the first time yesterday were, W. W. Lord '28 and J. E. Tobin '27, first basemen; J. A. Nordberg '28, R. C. Sullivan '28, and William Ullman '27, infielders. Captain C. L. Todd '26, W. B. Jones '28, last year's Freshman captain, and M. F. Amsden '26, were the veteran outfielders to report...