Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buck theory: that all the leopards in the Malay Peninsula will be black in a few hundred years. One of his captives he named Spitfire II because of its likeness to another black leopard that had once removed a piece of the Buck thumb. Spitfire was caged on the deck of a Chinese-manned boat bound for Singapore. Nearby sat a Chinese butcher sharpening a knife. The butcher plunged his knife into a pig's throat, Spitfire smelled blood, burst from his cage, leapt over the side. Beastcatcher Buck felt his hair-roots tingle as a shark...
...declared he did not want to be President, would not be a candidate for the nomination. Two years ago he wrote of the Presidency as the final sacrifice," adding: "The restraint, artificiality and loneliness in the White House . . . seems the life of a pet in a gilded cage." But Baker-for-President sentiment does not easily down. Last December a South Carolina friend wrote to urge candidacy upon him. Mr. Baker sidestepped thus: "The times clearly present a great opportunity for service. . . .The situation of the world changes from day to day. Nobody can safely forecast what his duty...
Other animals have other miseries: Hella, the lioness, whose second prison-born, litter is taken from her when the cubs reach circus age; Mino, the little red fox, who periodically runs, chasing insanity, in narrowing circles around his cement cage. But there are human sufferers as well. A young man who makes friends with the girl who takes care of Peter, the bicycle-riding chimpanzee, is so horrified by the animals' sufferings that he plans to sacrifice himself in atonement. One night he steals into the elephant's cage, deliberately begins to lead away the elephant's pet, a little...
Clyde Beatty, 27, of Chillicothe, Ohio, "THE FEARLESS & YOUTHFUL TRAINER DEMONSTRATING MAN'S POWER OVER FEROCIOUS BEASTS OF THE JUNGLE." While lurid red lights play on a circular cage in the centre ring. Trainer Beatty, armed with whip, chair and blank-loaded revolver, assembles some 40 lions & tigers, puts them through paces. The beasts snarl, hiss, roar, paw each other and Mr. Beatty, but nobody is hurt. The lions & tigers are frequently stubborn, which gives Mr. Beatty an opportunity to demonstrate his undeniable courage. Sometimes one will leap at him; then his revolver makes lightning in the dim cage...
When, at 16, she becomes pregnant, she steals 100 francs from the local post office and runs away to Bordeaux. There she miscarries the child, takes to prostitution as a starving bird takes to a cage. The captain of a tramp steamer gets her drunk, whisks her off with him to Venezuela. There he drops her; there, bit by bit, she begins to collect money to get back to her adored France...