Word: apes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gibson Girl, a majestic creature with an imposing pompadour, large bust and perfect Grecian profile. Women 35 years ago who did not look like Gibson Girls attempted to do so, just as their mothers had imitated the swanlike ladies of Punch's Illustrator John Leech, as their daughters ape the rowdy sirens of Peter Arno...
...Senate Chamber and House of Representatives; in the ape-house of the Bronx Zoo; in the White House executive offices; in the Roxy Theatre, Manhattan and in Paramount Theatre, Paris; in Lakeside Press, Chicago (where TIME is printed); in the Secretariat, Delhi, India; in Diner No. 1418 on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe; in the San Francisco Stock Exchange; in the London County Council Hall; in Postum Cereal Co., Battle Creek, Mich.; and in many another structure, Carrier Engineering Corp. has installed equipment to condition...
...nine-year-old child. "The elephant, in spite of its huge bulk, seems to pass through the successive phases of development to adulthood at approximately the same chronological rate as man." Anthropoids and Man keep time for six years. Then suddenly the anthropoids spurt. A seven-year ape equals a 12½-year boy; an eight-year ape a 20-year boy.- Dr.Thomas Wingate Todd, Cleveland...
...hard game of tennis with his wife (Doris Kenyon Sills) at their home in Brentwood Heights near Los Angeles. Eight years ago Sills told Louis Sherwin, colyumist of the New York Evening Post, why he left philosophy for acting. Said he: "I went on the stage, you poor ape, because I thought it would give me more leisure to read. . . . What I would rather have done than anything else is write...
...Brained Animal. "Man did very well before he was a man at all and nobody has given any reason why he ceased to be an ape. ... In producing a new and cunning big-brained animal with hands, nature overshot her mark and we are now struggling with the consequences," asserted Dr. H. S. Harrison, curator of the Horniman Museum and Library, London, to B. A. A. S. anthropologists. Later Paleolithic man was as smart as modern man. If he were living today, he could easily become a good mechanic or a bishop. Much of what passes for intelligence...