Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunshine, a big Russian brown bear in Cleveland's Brookside Zoo, Keeper Thomas Earl had always spoken kindly. "He is docile, tame and well mannered," said he. One day last week Keeper Earl entered Sunshine's cage with a breakfast of raw meat, carrots, two loaves of bread. Sunshine was not in a good humor, did not retire to his pit for his meal. Keeper...
...highly un fortunate Spinks. He was the impecunious editor of the weekly Bohemia, she was a frowzy woman who messed about her barnlike house in flamboyant silk wrappers, looking "like some tropical bird whose plumage had been dimmed and ruffled by captivity and whose cage was not kept as clean as it should be." It was at her irrational house with the Spink boys and girls that the best fun was to be found. Making the cistern water overflow from the attic and tobogganing with it down the stairs was a panacea for all childish ills...
...same influence that turns a group of peaceful citizens into a crowd of bloodthirsty madmen also affects the grasshopper-mob psychology. In Pretoria, South Africa, Dr. Faure collected a lot of solitary grasshoppers. He picked all colors, brown, green, grey, soil-tinted and put them together in a cage. Soon they began to change shape and color. They became more active. Their body heat rose. Their appetites increased. In successive molts they continued to change color until all were black-&-yellow-the age-old color of plague locusts. No longer were they playful, harmless. They fought for food. They...
...struggle between a python and a tiger. The tiger gets the python by the throat. The python coils around the tiger's middle. The tiger shakes himself loose and goes to get a drink of water. Finally Frank Buck captures both, the python by hauling him into a cage, the tiger by building a box-trap out of logs. Alert cinemaddicts will guess that actually the tiger and the python were both captured before their fight, recaptured later for the camera...
...anoa (pygmy water buffalo) weighing 200 Ib. attacked and killed a 350-lb. nilgai. Animalcatcher Buck named him Little Tough Guy, but a few days later he found him cringing in a corner of his cage. Nearby was a 7-lb. porcupine...