Word: cage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bunions; narrow slippers that do their walking in limousines. New men take their eyes off the floor and look at faces; thousands of wall-eyed masks with halitosis, passing in slow and grave procession, the time comes for action. Somebody actually puts his hand in the leopard's cage, or forgets to register a book, or spits on the floor. Then the custodian snarls his ill-natured correction, clearly demonstrating that he is an insolent varlet who does not know his place. But for the most part he has an easy time. He just stands...
...SHOW-OFF?The man who talks so much he ought to be hung up in a cage...
...from an unknowable parent whose broad bulk rocked gently. For long periods, the monsters would sit motionless on brilliant mushrooms of coral, letting light-obscuring shoals of fish swim over and about them. If an inquisitive shark or surly moray sidled up, the monsters shuffled silently over to a cage near by, entered, fastened the gate behind them, dumbly gave back stare for stare through the wire mesh. From time to time, the monsters exchanged signs and left the bottom, risingly slowly and erect like dead fish on hooks. At the surface, they clambered to the bosom of their parent...
...addition Mr. Pennypacker thinks that it would be advisable to build a new and more commodious baseball cage, to remove the wooden stands at the north end of the Stadium and replace them with a permanent concrete addition, and to make more adequate provisions for the housing of the Athletic Association...
...baseball cage, large enough for the proper development of baseball teams, is much needed...