Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funereal mound which could easily have covered scores of Eurydices. Muscular William Dollar, a native of St. Louis, leaped into the picture as Amor (Love), wearing white tights and great white wings. Dancer Dollar's function was to lead Dancer Christensen to the entrance of Hades, a giant cage contraption which housed furies and scarlet demons who proved no more terrifying than Punch & Judy puppets...
Engaged. Richard Tauber, 44, Austrian born concert and operatic tenor; and Diana Napier, British cinemactress; in London. Of his betrothal, interrupted while he secured a Viennese divorce from his wife whom he had previously divorced in Berlin, Tenor Tauber said: "We are like two little canary birds in a cage who have not seen each other before...
...CAGE ME A PEACOCK-Noel Langley- Morrow ($2.50). The dead hand of the late Thorne Smith lies clammily on Author Langley's pages. Supposedly an uproariously racy revamping of the legend of Lucrece, its rowdiness is no louder than Thorne Smith's, its dreary humor not much worse...
...about 40 chimpanzees which, because sexual and social experiments are constantly in progress, make frequent news. Last week Dr. Henry Wieghorst Nissen and Meredith P. Crawford ran off motion pictures showing altruism and co-operation among the apes. When one animal had food and another in an adjoining cage had none, the hungry one would beg by thrusting his hand through the bars. Often the other chimpanzee would share his food, especially if the two were well acquainted. Sometimes, however, the ape with food would simply shake hands with the other, or turn his back, or become so uncomfort able...
Exhibiting a complete mastery over their opponents from first to last, the Freshman lacrosse team completely swamped M.I.T. yesterday afternoon on the home field, by a score of 15-3. Even Henry W. Riecken, goalie for the Yardlings, couldn't resist the yearning to tally a point. Leaving his cage wide open in the middle of the game, he dashed the length of the field to slam the ball into the enemy...