Word: aped
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Asia. Dryopithecus, a big forest ape that lived in the Siwalik hills of India in Miocene times, before the Glacial Age, is the common ancestor of man, the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and other primates. That is the conclusion of the staff of the American Museum of Natural Hostory, after more than a year's study of three fragments of the beast's jawbone discovered for the Museum by Barnum Brown (suspicious cognomen...
...representing different branches, contributed to a symposium on recent researches in the origin of man. The upshot of it was that man's nearest living relative is the gorilla, though man is not directly descended from him. Dr. Frederick Tilney, the neurologist, comparing cross-sections of the brains of apes and monkeys, showed that the size and complexity of the brain is directly proportioned to its ability to use its hands for handling objects, rather than for locomotion. The gorilla has retrograded in some respects. Once it was an arboreal ape, and walked nearly erect. But its increasing weight...
...cataloguable ape...
Mary Blair is playing in the current Provincetown production Fashion. She was at one time associated with the Washington Square Players. She played in the insect comedy The World We Live In, and has appeared in others of Mr. O'Neill's plays, notably Diff'rent and The Hairy Ape. When Mr. O'Neill was writing All God's Chillun, so the story goes, he had her definitely in mind for the part. Unfounded press reports to the effect that other actresses had been offered and had refused the part were denied by the actresses themselves, but their denials have...
...America, has been a vaudeville actor, a reporter for a Connecticut paper. He was married in 1918 to Miss Agnes B. Burton of London, England. His plays include: Thirst, Beyond the Horizon (Pulitzer Prize play 1920), Diff'rent, The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize play 1922), The Hairy Ape...