Word: aping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that Barnet's records are uniformly stinking. . . I can't tolerate Barnet because he and the music he sponsors are doing irreparable injury to the cause of reputable, heartfelt jazz." This is all based on the fact that Charlie Barnet "has had the colossal bad taste to ape the one inimitable band around today and the result is something cheap and disgusting." Needless to-say, the "inimitable band" is Duke Ellington...
Besides describing such elegant doings, Miss Chase brightens her Luncheons by interviewing a couple of guests of honor. She has gaily discussed man's reversion to the ape with Harvard's Earnest Albert Hooton, the worries & woes of picture-making with Walter Wanger, the business of editing fashion magazines with her mother, Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue. She is fond of titillating her listeners with attacks on too too noble women, descriptions of summer romances gone sour because "in the flush of the rush he may have neglected to tell you of his wife...
...night, came over in a band of five to carry his heavy, inert body from his study to his bedroom. Within a few months Dr. Tilney taught himself to scribble with his left hand, in six months wrote the entire manuscript of a two-volume masterpiece, The Brain from Ape to Man. When it was published in 1928, many scientists acclaimed it as the finest piece of evolutionary writing since Darwin...
...generation Manhattan-born Sculptor Jacob Epstein has loved living in London and shocking the British. Last summer he shocked them again with Adam, a seven-foot ape man, chiseled out of a three-ton chunk of pink alabaster while Jacob Epstein listened to Ludwig van Beethoven for inspiration. Critics called it "a biologist's nightmare," but an Australian gold miner bought it for $35,000. As a side show at Blackpool on the Irish Sea, Adam grossed $250,000 from a million vacation gawkers...
...underslung jaw and the moronic look around the eyes. Then there was the Red Book picture with that particularly and characteristically harried Freshman look about it. And finally there was the wishfully comic picture in which he was perched on the famous Yale fence immortalized by Professor Hooton's ape pictures. Obviously, there was no solution of the problem to be found here. Finally Vag got his brilliant idea, and immediately swung into action...