Word: caging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aldo Nuti countermands the precautions. He begs to be allowed to demonstrate his flawless marksmanship, if not his courage. The Nestoroff watches with the rest as they release the tiger and the director cries, "Ready, shoot!" Serafino Gubbio cranks his camera, inside the cage with Nuti. Aldo Nuti aims carefully and shoots, not the tiger, but the Nestoroff. The tiger tears him apart. Gubbio cranks on until someone fires pointblank through the bars into the tiger's ear. He thereby achieves perfection as a cinematograph operator. Emotionless? Oh, no. His suppressed terror strikes him dumb forever after. But except...
...Cambridge cage...
...This will make the second cage I've seen put up in my day here. Back in 1897, they put up the one we've been using down here, when they gave up playing on Jarvis and Holmes Fields." Dennis reminisced. "Those were fine fields, up where the Law School is now; and they used to have some fine ball games on Holmes. When we couldn't get in we used to climb up in the willow trees and see the game fine...
...Advocate parrot will be enclosed in a gilded cage of the finest quality obtainable, from which vantage point he will lavish profanity and witty sayings upon the Board, and it is expected that he may even dictate printable prose and poetry worthy of being given space in the columns of the magazine...
Besides serving as counsellor and friend, the parrot may prove to be a literary inspiration, and any future poems on the subject of a 'bird in his gilded cage' may be directly traced to his influence...