Word: caging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...awards were founded by Edward W. Bok in 1923. This year marks the fifth successive one for this series of prizes. Every season the interest in them has been growing steadily, and the exhibition put on this winter in the Brigg's baseball cage proved no exception. The prizes donated this year totalled over $14,000. Five awards of $2,000 each were given to business and advertising concerns from all over the country...
...however, a real Rajah; but only a "super" in a Parisian revue. He yearns for the haughty leading lady (Evelyn Brent) who keeps counts & dukes, likes to go to the zoo. She puts "Super" Menjou to her favorite test: he must enter a tiger's cage and rescue her silk gloves. Approaching the beast, he notes with pleasure that it had died the night before. He does the proper thing...
...worked for the glory of the team, and he has worked as long as the hero. For hours, beneath the direct rays of a beating sun, and when the rains of November were thrumming a monotonous tattoo on the roof of the baseball cage, he has practised for but one thing: that the Varsity might be great. In return he asks nothing; though, when honor's at the stake, like the heroine of almost any novel, he has been ready always to "go the whole...
...proboscis monkey from Malaysia and the howling monkey from the tropics are a pair of supercilious snobs. Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars of the N. Y. Zoological Garden has kept a howling monkey for three years only by pampering and coddling it, keeping it in a fine special cage, with "Vitaglass" windows to admit the ultraviolet...
Like lions in a cage, 70 airplanes made to fly were wheeled last week into Convention Hall in Detroit. In a day, 30,000 persons came to the All-American Aircraft Show to see and marvel. Some stayed to buy, for this was a business show, with salesmen talking turkey, not an exhibition of good will...