Word: cages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accidents marred the exhibition. A Manx cat whose owner was watching the mice broke away, snarled once at the mice, then dashed off in the opposite direction, startling a turtle, annoying a tiger cub, distracting the attention of an elderly man watching the goldfish. A pelican, taken from its cage to pose for a news-camera, wandered over to the fish exhibition and was diving for one of the lion-headed goldfish when interrupted by a goldfish gillie. One of Exhibitor Donald S. Crowe's bear cubs became ill from an ice cream cone, recovered. A stray...
Three drawings in the magazine The New Yorker, showing a baby in a pen, a clerk in a cashier's cage, and a prisoner behind the bars were responsible for the introduction of cartoons into a psychology course of Dr. F. L. Wells, instructor of Experimental Psychopathology, it was learned yesterday in an interview at the Psychopathic Hospital...
...will see new performers given handicaps of as much as 15 feet, while the handicap in much as 15 feet, while the handicap in the high jump, set for 3 o'clock, generally varies from one to eight inches. Other events are the shot put, staged in the old cage at 3.30 o'clock, the 70-yard high hurdles at 3.45 o'clock, and the 440 yard run at 4 o'clock...
Yesterday's football workout for the University squad was held for the first time this year in the LeBaron Briggs Cage, due to continuous rains all afternoon. Practice lasted only an hour and consisted almost entirely of work on fundamentals, signal drills, and Virgina plays...
...Vagabond walked out of a down town gilded cage that purported to be a movie theatre in a melancholy mood. It had been a gangster movie with much scramming, much moiling, much drumming gunfire. In the end the "big shot" got his and the public was taught a grand lesson. As he fumbled in his pocket for a subway dime the Vagabond mused to himself that "There, but for the grace of God, was Charles Dickens". Had Dickens lived today he would have written such things, had he lived a thousand years ago he would have winded East with...