Word: baboons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pound, the best fighter in the world. He bobbed, squirmed, charged, wove, ducked, slammed and smashed at Sharkey, trying to hit his face more than his body. He swung in under Sharkey's high guard with what Westbrook Pegler colorfully called "the simian roll of a vaudeville baboon on roller skates." In the seventh round, a right caught Sharkey on the chin. He went back against the ropes, the crowd roaring...
Monkey Hill in the London Zoo, home of 40 Abyssinian baboons, had to be closed to the public last week. The monkeyshines there had become no laughing matter. George, a young member of the baboon colony, had stolen a female belonging to the "king," the oldest, largest baboon of Monkey Hill. Taking her into an inaccessible place, he had piled up a barricade of sticks and stones. The king, who still had another mate left, squatted nearby, uninterested, curiously watched the indignation of other colony members...
Mobbing together, they attacked the bad baboon's barricade. After two days of siege, George and the female grew hungry, tried to get out. The monkey mob mauled them, chased them back. Then in the shadow of his hiding place, George killed his stolen female, ignominiously. Monkey moralists were satisfied. The wife-stealer was allowed to come out unharmed. The king, still uninterested, sat by, blinked, ate a peanut...
...hunters march forth from Merrimack, N. H., with guns loaded, triggers oiled. Through woods and fields near the farm of Thomas H. Braden they prowled. Before long Police Chief Frank R. Flanders was seen taking aim and- ker-blam-down came the quarry: a full-grown (60-lb.) male baboon. The hunt continued. Toward nightfall Dr. Paul Denicola fired into a copse near an open field and another baboon breathed its last. That was the end of Merrimack's great May hunting day. The baboons, lately bought by Mr. Braden from the Benson Animal Farm, had escaped while being...
...pleasantly demonstrating shade-and-shadow effects on a greensward. Mr. Carter also won the figure-composition first prize with his Ezra Davenport, a portrait of a stolid York-state farmer. Second in this category was Mrs. Anna Tenggren, Artist, painted by her friend Elmer Brubeck, who employed a peculiar baboon blue in the delineation of Mrs. Tenggren's mouth and chin...