Word: caged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin a two-year modernization of "The Greatest Show On Earth." Mr. Geddes quickly assured the press that nothing newfangled would be done with clowns, elephants, acrobats. He gave a few hints as to his intentions. Next year, he said, the menagerie would not be displayed in their usual cage wagons, but in scenes resembling the animals' native habitats. Eventually the big top, with its many tent poles, would be replaced by a poleless canvas hung from 160-foot portable steel towers...
Rain drove Harvard indoors yesterday afternoon, but Coach Harlow treated the team to a full workout in Briggs Cage. Brown plays came in for a lot of attention because Coach McLaughry has given his team an attack which is veiled in deception. Perfect execution of two or three plays a game has been enough for victory...
...just ahead was the "squirrel cage"-the staff of experts and writers whose job was to dig up facts, rough out drafts for Willkie speeches. Head of the squirrel cage was dark, intense Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would...
Forward of the squirrel cage was a lounge car for the "boll weevils" (local politicos); two diners (which became traveling nightclubs after the last speech of the day); a press lounge; car after car of reporters, cameramen, assorted camp followers. One of the most popular inhabitants of the train was Porter Foley, who could get there fustest with the mostest drinks. In one week he drew $40 in tips...
There will be three short speeches, given by Sherm Gray, president of the Undergraduate Athletic Council, Captain Joe Gardella, and Coach Dick Harlow. The entire program will not last more than 20 minutes, and in the event of rain, the assembly will be moved to Briggs Cage...