Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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House baseball is to be played in the Briggs Cage at 4.30 o'clock in the afternoon, in order to make it more convenient for those burdened with afternoon labs and lectures to participate...
...decade's most extraordinary theatrical whatnot went into the final frenzy of rehearsals, Producer Rose had a man on a downtown stage practicing a high-dive into a cage of lions and tigers while a swarm of acrobats and jugglers put the last pat of perfection to their acts and a crew of stagehands struggled with a spangled, 40-ft. jack-in-the-box which pops out of something no bigger than a suitcase. In a Brooklyn riding academy, 16 acrobatic dancers were in training for an equestrian ballet. Inside the Hippodrome the enormous stage had been extended...
...next cage roams the forlorn J. Ramsay MacDonald, "after three years as a Peripatetic premier, now here and now there, wandering like a lost soul over the face of the British Empire . . . hated by his former followers and ignored by his Tory colleagues." Winston Churchill, Sir Samuel Hoare, George V, Montagu Norman are less sensational exhibits in the British tent. But before the British Intelligence Service, the Marquess of Reading and Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon. who shifted a fortune of 85 million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder...
Freshman baseball practice will continue out-doors as long as the weather permits, and will be resumed in the cage after the mid-year examinations...
...piece of cake lay beside it. An autopsy was ordered to see if the eagle had been poisoned. When it was over, the physician reported that Uncle Sam had undoubtedly been poisoned but New London officials refused to press the investigation. Keeper Kenerson buried his eagle beneath the cage and had a small tombstone made, inscribed: UNCLE SAM GOLDEN EAGLE