Word: caging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dutch East Indies ended, like any good fairy story, with the death of the dragons. The Burdens took their monsters home to Manhattan safely (TIME, Sept. 20), but there they died, after several months' captivity in Bronx Zoo, unable to survive in the chill climate and on a cage diet. Last week curators of the American Museum of Natural History announced that the dead dragons were nearly ready for exhibition in the new Hall of Dinosaurs. Their eight-foot corpses were mounted, one in the act of strangling a wild boar, the other "snarling defiance at civilization." Beneath their...
Died. Tarzan Bajazzo, who for years had amused London, Paris, Manhattan by faultless table manners and monchalance in smoking cigarets; by suicide, in Berlin. This trained chimpanzee set fire to the straw in his cage...
...infields two days ago was followed yesterday by a long workout for the entire baseball squad. The early arrival of warm weather and the excellent condition of the Soldiers Field turf has allowed Coach Mitchell to take his charges out of the cramped quarters of the old baseball cage considerably earlier than usual...
...report, it was announced last night by Coach Claude Davidson. At present the squad is not large enough, probably because of confusion of dates due to the original announcement which said all 1930 candidates would not be called until March 14 New men are expected to appear at the cage this afternoon at 4 o'clock...
Female modern apartment denizens, as crowded for space as birds in a cage, viewed with delight a new style of furniture brought forth last week by artists at the Art Centre, 56th St., Manhattan. Artists, although all the word knows them to be useless, sometimes have fantastically practical ideas...