Word: cage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moves in?and needless to say becomes the sensation of London. Debates about him rage in every club and smoking-compartment and it requires four policemen to keep the crowd moving as they file past his cage. Sermons are preached about him, a question is even asked about him on the floor of the House of Commons. And when that happens, as everybody knows, all England falls flat upon its face. The Orang and the Chimpanzee are frightfully jealous and glare wrathfully at him through the bars...
...adopts an aloof, preoccupied, gentlemanly manner, as suitable to his station, and spends his time reading or writing or pacing thoughtfully up and down his cage, not noticing his visitors. In time, the four policemen may safely be reduced to two, and ultimately to one?public curiosity never centres for an undue length of time upon any one subject. Some slight difficulties he has with his keeper, Collins, who is in the beginning not quite cordial. For one thing, his coming had ousted the Gibbon and there is no hiding the fact that Collins would prefer to have the Gibbon...
Josephine, of course, comes. In characteristic feminine fashion, now that he has done what she told him to, she is outraged at him for doing it. She stands outside his cage and tells him he must be mad, he has disgraced her; then she melts, says it was all her fault, and she loves him anyway. The upshot of it is that she vows she will marry him, come to live in the cage with him. But the authorities, it appears, have already decided that in the contingency of his marrying, he will automatically be freed from his contract...
Long deferred work on the new baseball cage which was given to the University last fall by an anonymous donor, got underway yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field...
Architects and officials of the H. A. A. were present when stakes were driven in the old tennis courts nearest the Newhall Boathouse to mark out the limits of the new cage, which will be one of the largest in the country when completed. The building will be 150 feet square, large enough to contain a complete infield. To indicate the height of the glass roof of the projected building, an extension ladder was roped upright in the con-center of the area which was marked off yesterday, rising nearly 60 feet into...