Word: caging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atmosphere strained as the inside of a tiger cage, France last week held its first election since Gaston Doumergue took over the Premiership during the bloody riots which followed the Stavisky disclosures (TIME. Feb. 19). At stake were local provincial offices everywhere except in Paris. Month or so ago any political prophet would have said that the public's never-ceasing indignation at the corruption revealed by the "Stavisky affair" would be the major issue in any French election. But fortnight ago Papa Doumergue, in a drive to push through his proposed reforms of the French Constitution (TIME...
...watching her. She did not allow her children to slap their children. When she saw that done, she hit her own children and took the grandchildren away. But when the child deserved punishment, she administered it herself. Many thought her bad-tempered because she would scream and shake the cage when she saw humans slap their children...
With the reduction of the squad earlier this week, from 90 to 44 players the coaches got down to business and sent the men through a stiff workout in spite of the drizzle which threatened to keep the team indoors. The morning session was held in the cage with special emphasis placed on blocking. In fact, the bulk of the day was given over to this essential and Coaches Walsh, Fesler and Lane worked all afternoon on the blocking problem. The motto this year is, "Nobody on the squad who can't block" and the players are certainly getting...
Attendants dragged the horse outside where a policeman shot it. "Baby" darted out the runway to his cage. The crowd pressed up around the steel-barred ring, still roaring, "Shoot the lion!" After a while the spectators went back to their seats. Once more "Baby" came into the ring, this time with five other lions and Miss Marion Knowlton, trim young animal trainer. Obediently "Baby" leaped over her, lay down beside her. There were dark red splotches around his tawny jaws...
...Summerfield of East Peoria, Illinois' Representative Everett M. Dirksen and a thousand people crowded around the little Fond du Lac State Bank in East Peoria one morning last week. Inside, before the bank opened to the public, a scrawny bespectacled widow in a cotton dress marched up to a cage marked "CASH F. D. I. C. ORDERS HERE," posed for photographers. In her hand she held a check for $1,250, her life savings, which W. Kenneth Hayes behind the counter had just given her. "I don't know how to thank you men," grinned Mrs. Lydia Lobsiger...