Word: apes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ferdinand's earliest memories are only slightly less poisonous than his later ones. Son of an insurance clerk (''a drivelling great ape, with his head full only of fury, pretences and louder and louder yellings: a whole clattering chaos of idiocies"), and a well-meaning but uncherished mother who runs a dilapidated antique shop, Ferdinand recalls malicious neighborhood gossip, scandals, a murder, a tough playmate who taught him much smut, another playmate who went to the country and died of fresh air. But these are among his lighter reminiscences. Most haunting memory is of his father accusing...
...superman made the airplane," observed Professor Joad, "but the ape has got hold of it. To step on foot throttles, insert coins into metal slots, scan headlines, crowd through clicking turnstiles, turn on the radio, hurl ourselves over the surface of the earth in a mechanism propelled by petrol-these constitute the modern notion of entertainment...
Died. Dr. Frederick Tilney, 63, world-famed neurologist, author (The Brain From Ape to Man, The Master of Destiny), longtime (1914-38) professor of neurology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons; of heart disease; at Oyster...
Many would be the jobs lost, the careers ruined, were U. S. Democratic Party Leader Franklin Delano Roosevelt to ape Italian Fascist Party Leader Benito Mussolini in prescribing gymnastic tests for his party henchmen. Doubtful it is that sickly, 64-year-old Speaker William Bankhead of the House of Representatives, could pass a rope-skipping examination; that suffering Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief administrator, would survive a pole-vaulting test; that Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley would fare well with the broad jump, or that bald, short House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could throw a discus very...
...their horses to Detroit. Except for the fact that there were only six events and 16 horses (two of them Bing Crosby and McDonald's Choice, belonging to Sponsor Louis), the Utica Riding Club Horse Show was not far different from the flashy horse shows it tried to ape. No. 1 judge of the show, W. C. Overton, whose regular job is supervising the paddock at the Detroit racetrack, thought Joe Louis' form far inferior in the show ring to the prize ring, awarded him a third-place yellow ribbon in the five-gaited saddle class...