Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flame of anger swept through Albion and neighboring communities. Fuel was added by report of Andy's previously attacking a child, and a constable. State police had to guard the bears in their cage at Industry while the Redshaws rested in jail. Fred Redshaw offered to give Andy to the Rochester Zoo if his life were spared. But Miss Mary Foubister, secretary of the Rochester Dog Protective Association, demanded sterner justice. She appealed to the State Conservation Commission, soon was standing by while a State policeman pumped shotgun slugs into Andy until he was dead...
Forced into the Cage during yesterday afternoon's heavy rainstorm, the Varsity squad worked out until 5 o'clock, but without Coach Casey, who went down to New York to attend a dinner at the Harvard Club last evening...
...Daniels, Veterans' Administrator Hines, Admiral Leigh, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, Oregon's Governor Meier and Portland's celebrated, bushy-browed Mayor Baker. In the line of march were clowns, drum-&-bugle corps, an automobile that had crossed the continent with the Bonus Expeditionary Force, a cage full of pretty girls on a truck, a French box car, lowans armed with ears of corn, cowboys from Wyoming...
Cobras. Snakeman Ditmars last week introduced a new cobra to his zoo, housed him in a cage with an old cobra named Beelzebub. Within a few minutes both cobras were spitting & biting, tying each other into angry knots. Dr. Ditmars watched impassively. "Let them fight it out," said he. "That's the only way they'll get used to each other." At length Beelzebub crawled off into a corner of the cage, his head bloody & swollen. Dr. Ditmars fed him a six-foot gopher snake, turned a hose on his conqueror...
Pythons. In Philadelphia two pythons had lived in the same cage in lethargic harmony for four years. One was 20 ft. long; the other 18 ft. The 20-ft. python had eaten recently, and since pythons are seldom hungry keepers put a single 25-lb. pig in the cage for the smaller one. Next morning that python lay in a corner squeezed to death. His larger friend was coiled contentedly in the opposite corner. A bulge in his middle showed...