Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married, Clyde Beatty, 28, famed wild animal trainer (The Big Cage); and Harriet Evans, 24, circus aerialist; in Bristol, Tenn...
...rattlesnakes are her specialty. Some seven months ago she set out to placate Sahuara, one of her male rattlers. First she soothed him with a cloth on the end of a stick. Soon she was able to stroke him with her bare hand. Then she put him in a cage with Kitty, a female rattler. Last fortnight appeared the results of Curator Wiley's kind treatment-ten baby rattlesnakes, of which four survived. As far as records show, no one else has ever succeeded in what she had now accomplished for the third time-getting rattlesnakes to breed...
...about 15,000 were cancerous mice, but only about 25 had intestinal tumors. The difference probably lies in the diet. For long years her mice received the same diet (mostly fresh bread, twice-pasteurized whole milk, timothy hay and bird seed). Thus most of their cancers came from irritations, cage-rubbing, fights, minor infections. This does not disprove her heredity theory, for the cancers occur only in the susceptible animals. Lately she has been working on mice fed diets comparable to the varied diets of human beings to see if she can increase the incidence of intestinal tumors...
...lion-like roar. Mickey is a mouse but he acts like a man. He has a sack-like hound and a cat. They and the incidental animals and things contrast with Mickey's seriousness, act with fantastic playfulness. A swarm of canary chicks will escape Mickey's cage, light in unison on a table. Suddenly they all go into a dance, do a double shuffle, a stationary skating motion and bump fundaments by twos. Audiences roar with astonishment. Mickey's cat and dog chase one another into a pair of drawers on a line. The drawers stand...
...BIRD CAGE-Eimar O'Duffy- Kinsey ($2). Disappearance and murder in an English tavern lead to the killing of an investigator, but the twister is trapped...