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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Cleveland | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

Approximately 25 years of record history are covered by the disks which students have turned in at one shop. Here a close inspection of hundreds of records reveals that the oldest disk is numbered 8565; the latest Victor release is numbered 22149. One old record bears the title. "That Baboon Baby Dance." The assumption is that it was released about the time that the evolutionary theory was becoming well known. Another disk reveals the fact that at one time in the past the Turkey Trot was all the rage, if one is to trust the number of them recorded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "That Baboon Baby Dance" Traded for Modern Jazz Record as Concerted Attack on Evolutionary Theory Gets Under Way | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

...Manhattan, policemen and firemen cornered two murderers in an animal store. Massacre was being done; corpses littered the floor; strangled parakeets lay limp; flapping goldfish gasped for life; fumbling turtles swayed perplexedly. After two hours the killers were subdued- a wicked little monkey and a big. black, bad baboon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Author | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...scorns 'monsoon,' 'baboon' and 'loon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...birds and beasts were there. The big baboon by the light of the moon Was combing his auburn hair. The monkey, he got drunk And sat on the elephant's trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ball | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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