Word: cage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must learn to expect anything. An old lady in Washington, D.C. asked the repairman to run the new telephone wire through her parakeet's cage so that he "would have something interesting to perch on" (refused). A Chicago woman insisted on having her wall telephone four inches from the floor so that she would be forced to exercise while bending to answer it (granted). One telephone man was called to a Chicago hotel to repair a badly frayed cord, discovered the cause of the trouble as he was leaving: sitting in the bathtub was a pet lion...
Control of another Guterma company, Western Financial Corp., was sold by Guterma to Benjack Cage, the Texas swindler (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957). From $2.50 a share, the sales price in a few months dropped...
Dyke Benjamin, barely recovered from a leg injury which has hobbled him all season, ran a splendid 9:28.9 in the two-mile to finish second to John Morrison, who set a Yale and Coxe Cage record of 9:26.3. Benjamin had not been able to run at all until ten days ago, when he began to work out on grass. Competing with virtually no practice, he battled Morrison down to the last laps...
Joel Landau watched Yale's Keith Moore equal the Coxe Cage 60-yard hurdle record of 7.3 in a preliminary heat and then soundly defeated his rival in the final. A University record was tied in a dash heat, when Sandy Dodge covered the 60 yards in 6.3 seconds...
...events and hockey game. Many consider Sunday the best of the three days since everyone gives up running around and settles down to milk punch for breakfast and a "black" hour. (For the uninitiated, this means a time for telling offcolor stories). In the afternoon there is a "cage" party when the remaining couples troop upstairs to a dormitory room and finish off any left over liquor and choose the prettiest girl and the best dancer...