Word: aped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engagement Reported. Playwright Eugene (Strange Interlude) O'Neill; to Danish-French actress Carlotta Monterey, onetime leading woman in Playwright O'Neill's The Hairy Ape. He cannot be married until a final decree of divorce has been granted to his second wife, Agnes Burton O'Neill, by whom he has two children, Una and Shane...
...Tennessee: "The whole progress of nature is so gradual, that the entire chasm from a plant to a man, is filled up with divers kinds of creatures, rising one above another, by so gentle an ascent, that the transitions from one species to another are almost insensible. . . . The ape is this rough draught of man: this rude sketch. . . ." Indeed Wesley had written A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy. But he did not altogether desert superstition for science: among the 725 prescriptions for 243 diseases listed in his Primitive Physick...
...cartoons of various British legal lights. They range in importance from the police court magistrate of London, to the Lord Chief Justice, and Prime Minister Disraeli, but all are shown in positions neither dignified nor flattering. They were drawn for "Vanity Fair" by two cartoonists who called themselves "Ape" and "Spy." Proudly looking down on this "rogue's gallery" are oil portraits of Daniel Webster, of the class of 1804, John Marshall, Rufus Choate, of the class of 1845, and James Bradley Thayer, of the class of 1852, professor of Law from...
...ape leaped into fame and being when Mr. Baldwin said, in the course of a public address...
...shows us that our descent has not been only from the ape, it is also from the tiger. The tiger must be not merely apprehended but eliminated if the state is to survive. The ape in us has come through history with spiritual power. The tiger has not. That is a difference worth remembering...