Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent the pigeons fluttering from the courthouse roof, set little Sicilian donkeys braying hilariously in the nearby marketplace. Prisoners spat, screamed, bit their thumbs at the jury, howled maledictions. Resourceful Matteo Balsamo, sentenced for life, tore off his shoes, hurled them with appropriate curses through the bars of his cage at the jury. The jury kept their shoes...
...time he gets punched in the face. The third time he wins, and afterward uses a big-town barber shop as a blind for his elaborate gambling house. Especially fond of blondes, he pats a manicurist's leg and asks her for advice, keeps a blonde canary in a cage. He warms up his luck by rubbing a blackamoor's head, a hunchback's shoulder, the lapels of his own loud clothing. When the police send a lady to get evidence on his gambling-house, Nick gives her a drink, then kicks her from behind. The picture grows a little...
...time Mr. Lamont had scarlet fever at Exeter.* But he could see the modest basement offices of the school paper, the Exonian, where his sons, Corliss and Austin ("Egg"), spent much of their time while at Exeter. His reminiscing over, Mr. Lamont went to the new Thompson baseball cage and presided over an alumni luncheon, where he read a letter of congratulation from President Hoover and where another Morgan man talked: Vernon Munroe, president of Exeter's General Alumni Association. As Mr. Lamont looked around the tables, he saw such alumni as Senator George Higgins Moses (New Hampshire...
...James's machine, ready for sale last week, is an endless conveyor set on end. The motorist runs his car into a cage. Gates shut and electricity raises the cage notch by notch until another cage reaches the street level. The present parker holds 24 cars in a double stack reaching, with motors and hoisting wheels, 100 ft. high. Ground space is 16 x 24 ft., approximately the size of a double garage...
When a motorist wants his car back he turns a key, presses a button or drops a coin, according to the parker's electric control arrangement. Thereupon the cage containing his car drops to street level, the car rolls out, much like a "hot dog" rolling out of a roasting machine in a roadside rotisserie...