Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cage sat the Rev. Vincenzo Baiamonte. Archpriest of Burgio, and several former Mayors of local towns. Indeed last week's batch of alleged desperadoes were as different as possible from the 153 dirty, sullen men and savage, leering hags who sat in similar cages during the first mass Mafiosi trial at Termini Imerese (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Last week the well and in many cases elegantly dressed prisoners listened with composure while the Crown charged them with 43 murders, 26 attempted assassinations, blackmailings & robberies innumerable and, collectively, with "banding and conspiring together for criminal purposes...
TIME readers make me think of this story: A nice old lady visits the reptile cage at the Zoo; after studying a wriggling serpent at length, she asks the attendant: "Oh, mister, is that a male or female snake?" "Lady," replies the keeper, "that is a question that could only interest another snake...
Reconstructing the picture, after shooting the bear, they saw Keeper Emerson Joyce enter the cage, forgetting to drop the steel door which would have confined the bear to the cave. As he leaned over to arrange the feeding pans the bear slipped up, grasped him with her powerful forelegs, crushed him to death. Thus, she evened the scores. A few days prior her two cubs had been taken away from...
...Watertown, N. Y.'s Thompson Park Zoo, attendants took her cubs from a 500-lb. bear. When next a human entered her cage-it happened to be Emerson E. Joyce, 60, keeper-the bereft bear hugged him to death...
...sparrowhawk started to chase a carrier pigeon across the Atlantic last week. When 500 miles out they met the Cunarder Caronia, both were contented to alight, to be put in a single cage where they completed their crossing in avian amiability...