Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banks, been traced to Salt Lake City stores. A local detective was waiting when, one week to a day after the kidnapped boy's release, a short, brown-haired woman walked into a Salt Lake City 5-&-10? store, made a small purchase. At the cashier's cage her $5 bill was quickly checked with the ransom list. The detective made his arrest. Other officers were waiting at the woman's home when her husband appeared a few hours later, with two ransom bills in his pocket. The man, Harmon Waley, promptly confessed his part...
...with arrest by the local S. P. C. A. if he did not stop "prodding and beating" his circus lions. Said the S. P. C. A. agent: "Lions are the nicest and bravest animals in the world." Retorted Lion-Scarred Beatty: "He is perfectly welcome to come into the cage with me and pet the kittens if he thinks they are so tame...
...generally acquire the germs after birth. Unborn animals strongly resist the invasion of germs. Therefore Professor Reyniers starts by putting a pregnant guinea pig into a germ-free operating chamber and by Caesarean section taking out her young. Those young he instantaneously puts into a sterile, airtight, air-conditioned cage. They nurse from a glass "mother," drinking sterile synthetic guinea pig milk of Dr. Reyniers' composition. The water and the solid food which they get later is also sterilized before being put into their cage. Portholes let Dr. Reyniers watch the guinea pigs. Two openings sealed with a pair...
...Balloon Propelled by Eagles, Vultures, Condors. The birds wore harnesses which could be pulled in any direction by the operator. Birds had "merely to fly." They could also be pointed up or down. The drawing for the patent showed a balloon like a big inverted umbrella, with a bird cage mushrooming above...
...aged spinster, lives alone in her isolated cottage, with her canary, cat and dog. Years ago her Lover Josef left her practically at the altar; her whole life has become one mnemonic system to keep his memory green and rankling. One stormy night the canary gets out of its cage and, terrified by the cat, escapes into the woods. Fraulein Emma searches in vain, finds instead a lovely young girl, Liesl, whom she brings home with her. Liesl cannot stand the cat, so Adolf, her butcher-boy swain, has the cat made away with. That very night sleek, feline Karl...