Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next afternoon. 200 miles from Asheville, the three ladies hung in a wooden cage 400 ft. in air looking down on the Clinch River. With them was Dr. Arthur Ernest Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, pointing out the foundations of the 253 ft.. $34,000,000 Norris dam. "It is most thrilling!' Mrs. Roosevelt exclaimed, "a great deal like riding in an airplane.'' After a two hour inspection of a dozen electric-gadgeted brick and frame houses in the new town of Norris, she went to one of the construction camps and made a speech: ''The Government...
JUNE ROBLES FOUND ALIVE CHAINED IN DESERT CAGE...
...Brooklyn, when Ringling Circus' black bear Bruno found his cage unlocked he strolled up a fire escape to see the town a not squad at his heels. Stopping halfway up, Bruno looked at the police; the police looked at Bruno. Up floated the voice of Trainer Joe Meyers: "Hey, you! What are you doing up there?" Bruno peered down at Meyers, padded back down between respectful rows of police to his cage...
...Evening, May 24 *Military Polonaise Chopin *Overture to "Leonore" No 3 Beethoven *Ballet from "Rosamunde" Schubert *Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breve" de Falla "Cricus Day," Fantasy (Eight Pictures from Memory) Op. 8 Deems Taylor I. Street Parade II. The Big Top III. Bareback Riders IV. a. The Lion Cage b. The Dog and Monkey Circus c. The Waltzing Elephant V. Tight-Rope Walker VI. Jugglers VII. Clowns (First Performance in Boston) *Concerto for Pianoforte No. 2 in G minor Saint-Saens Soloist: Elizabeth Trvers Behnke *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *To a Water Lily MacDowell Trepak Russian Dance...
...that afternoon at The Bronx Zoo pop-eyed New Yorkers crowded around the lizards' cage. They gaped at the mottled grey hides, tough and beaded as an Indian bag. They blinked at the great red mouths and serrated teeth, the long forked yellow tongues flicking in & out like a snake's. They shuddered at the wicked claws, long and sharp as a good-sized leopard's. Well might New Yorkers gape, blink, shudder. To most of them a lizard was a six-inch creature which eats flies and scuttles under leaves. These lizards were 9 ft. long...