Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wreck that had been his home, standing beside a suitcase with Mrs. Hanna. "That suitcase," said Minister Hanna dully, "contains all we have in the world." It was not quite all. As the U. S. Legation crumbled and blazed, the Hannas' pet green parrot had slipped from his cage, crawled down a ledge and flopped into the arms of an Army officer. Nerves stretched to the breaking point. Immediately after the shocks, the city had been put under martial law. No one rested, but soldiers relieved from digging in the ruins patrolled the city with fixed bayonets. Col. Frederic...
...Remember, you are the trapeze performers of the organization. On one side is the fat lady's lap, on the other side is a cage of man-eating lions and there is no net to catch you if you fall...
Chief new attraction is Clyde Beatty, 26, of Chillicothe, Ohio, "the world's youngest and most fearless wild animal trainer." Mr. Beatty is left alone in a great cage in which there are some 40 hissing, snarling, rumbling lions and tigers. These he persuades to form various artistic groupings by means of a whip, chair and frequently used revolver. Mr. Beatty's most showmanlike beast is Kazan, a large old lion who quails and cowers very perceptibly when the trainer stares him into submission. But occasionally Kazan is unable to stifle a yawn...
Harvard's spring track season opened officially yesterday when more than 100 veterans and aspirants for the University and Freshman teams assembled in the old cage. The gathering was addressed by Coaches Farrell, Mikkola, and Haggerty; Captain Vernon Munroe '31, and Manager Henry Chalfant '31. Initial workouts followed on the Freshman oval...
Tennessee game wardens sent decoy letters to M. E. Bogle. They shadowed his bird-cage trucks, finally unearthed a huge quail ring whereby two men in two years had bought and distributed 80,000 quail illegally trapped by farmers in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama...