Word: caging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles E. Coxe Memorial is to be completed December 20. This Field Gymnasium will provide ample space for indoor practice of the track, baseball, football, lacrosse, soccer, and tennis teams and probably will be the largest athletic "cage" in existence. The building will contain one huge room with a cinder track, eight laps to the mile, and runs and pits for jumping and pole vaulting beyond the end of the track oval. A netting will be suspended just inside of the track oval which will enable the track team and other teams to practice at the same time without...
...bullfight arena where his helpless sprawlings made him funny. Marceline preferred to say that he had run away from the tailor to whom he had been apprenticed, crawled under a circus tent and fallen asleep. Then an old clown had saved him from the crouching lion against whose cage he had dozed and taught him the astonishing art of making people laugh. All the legends made Marceline a Spaniard, but he talked with a tight cockney whine in his voice...
...meantime, there is nought but a sordid hole in the sidewalk with a row of vesper lanterns being burnt as an offering to the soul of the departed and, as Bob remarked, looking at the upturned cage with its iron spikes, "to save the boys pants from being torn on Saturday nights...
...second act. Everybody knows what that means. The treaty is signed. Yards of gold braid will probably fool the police into letting it go as polite comedy. Four Walls, believes the hero (who is a product of East Side puddles), do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage. He is a unique gangster, in that even a prison term cannot shake him from his smoky torch of philosophy. When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder," he stoically awaits her vengeance...
...cinder path, in the new cage, is ten laps and 40 yards to the mile, and promises to be one of the fastest indoor tracks in the country. The wooden course is just above the cinders, and is 11 laps to the mile...