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Word: cage (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ching-Ching comes out considerably ahead of Waif Ainsworth. Compared as pictures, Stowaway comes out ahead of Rainbow on the River, which is still considerably above average for its genre. Good shot: small Ainsworth, grudgingly allowed to attend his cousin's birthday party, fascinating her guests with his cage of dancing mice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Christmas Waifs | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...stepped the master of ceremonies of the NBC Jamboree to announce "the phenomenon of the century . . . the only mouse in the world who actually sings." Into the studio marched the Industrial School's tall, gaunt Manager Oscar Alva Allred, carrying Minnie in a wire-fronted box. Holding the cage before the microphone, Manager Allred poked a small piece of insulated wire through a hole in the box top, tenderly prodded Minnie's belly. As the visible audience of 400 listened raptly, out over a national network went faint, wavering chirps and trills. It sounded as much like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Singing Mouse | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...Frontier Centennial Exposition a bang-up success last summer. As a final fillip, Producer-Manager Billy Rose, the Broadway Barnum, worked up an act called "Beauty & the Beast." In this, shapely Lawrene Nevell, clad in breechcloth, brassiere and flowing cape,' did a dance in a lions' cage, flapping her cape in the faces of five large lions owned by a Dallas veterinarian named Nobel Hamiter (see cut). The lethargy of its bestial stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating than Billy Rose had expected, and it was soon replaced by a "Ziegfeld Milk Bath." Dr. Hamiter took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Bride of the Lion | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Following the Adams victory, Eliot and Leverett found time to play only two innings before the Briggs Cage was closed for the day. The score at that time stood 2-1 for the Rabbits, with the bases loaded and two outs. If possible, the rest of the game will be run off later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/1/1936 | See Source »

...season's final practice scrimmage Wednesday the man who has started every game in the cage became so cold that he was permitted to play at center for the last five minutes. In this time he scored three goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIO OF SOCCER TEAMS BATTLING ELIS TODAY | 11/20/1936 | See Source »

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