Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Blair and Congo arrived in Manhattan, sped up to The Bronx where Congo was put into a quarantined cage until 15 days prove he has no hoof & mouth disease. He kicked up his heels, seemed in fine fettle, enjoyed a nice mess of elm leaves. One of only four okapis in captivity.* Congo discovered his next-door neighbor was Doreen, the bongo, a rare West-African antelope that, until his arrival, was the zoo's most valuable specimen. Commented Dr. Blair, "Oh. her nose doesn't seem much out of joint...
...which completely avoid exposition structures or traffic. . . . Most irrepressibly Parisian novelty shown: a pair of women's patent leather pumps with the tongues representing Leon Blum wearing a red tie, these shoes priced at 1,000 francs ($37.50) the pair and displayed to the public in a bird cage...
...popular belief, the American chameleon (Anolis carolinensis) does not assume the color of its surroundings. Its color changes, partly reflex and partly voluntary, are stimulated by temperature, illumination, emotion. In summer the chameleon can be given the run of a screened porch, but in winter it needs a cage with plenty of sunlight shining through glass netting or fine screen. Chameleons can drink only by lapping up drops of water sprinkled on plants; hence many die of thirst even with a pan of water in their cages...
Miss Lane, in an exclusive conversation with the gentlemen of the Press, revealed that rhinoceri make "silly squeaks" when sculptresses are working near them. She also said that one of them, in the Bronz Zoo, attempted without success to pull her into the cage...
...Briggs Cage, Soldiers Field, sees an assembly of 900 Cambridge Boy Scouts tonight when Governor Hurley commissions one of them as official representative to the International Jamboree in Holland this summer. Exhibitions of Scoutcraft skill will feature the meeting, including the erection of a 75 foot suspension bridge in ten minutes...