Word: cage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House custom: he got stuck between floors in its creaky elevator. Ever since Theodore Roosevelt had it installed in 1902 (his rollicking sons used it to haul their patient pony Algonquin to & from their quarters). U.S. Presidents had frequently been stalled in the ornate mirrored and oak-paneled cage. The only power a President had in that emergency was to ring a gong, then wait while workmen hurried to the basement and jiggled the rachitic machinery back into motion...
Last week President Truman could see progress, on at least one of his pet programs. Workmen started tearing out the old lift, proudly reported they had found a hoofprint of Algonquin in the cork tile floor. The cage will go to the Smithsonian Institution as a relic. It will be replaced by a speedy, fireproof elevator designed by White House Architect Lorenzo Winslow at Harry Truman's order. Until about Oct. 1 the Truman family will have to use the stairways...
Getaway. From Munich it was a clean getaway across Germany to Strasbourg, across France slowly to Perpignan. He climbed wearily over the Pyrenees into Spain, eventually reached the British Consulate at Barcelona. Horned Pigeon is an almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage...
...individual star of the game was Ned Dewey, Crimson co-captain and midfieldman who, besides scoring three times on long angle shots, recovered many loose balls and broke up several M.I.T. scoring attempts. Russ Schubert and Bill Ennis, who shared the duties in the Crimson cage, each turned in several remarkable saves...
Starting at the forward positions for the Crimson were Estin, Grady and Lange; at the midfield slots were Wood, Dewey, and Rohr, while Louria, Blanchard, and Graham opened the game at the defense, with Schubert occupying the cage. Other players who saw action were: Ennis, Hodge, Jessop, Arias, Snow, Borg, Richards, Potter, Smith, Frank, Chamberlain, Dodson, and Trinkle...