Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first great advantages over the gorilla had been his imagination, and by art he forged that imagination into palpable weapons. Primitive people imagined that if they could get away with pretending to be gorilla-spirits, or human ghosts, or gods (by hiding their real faces behind deliberately carved and painted false ones) they would be able to influence these superior beings and even make use of them...
...former president of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus; by beauteous French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey Agassiz North, 35; after five years of marriage, three of separation; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Example: soon after they were married, he left her to hunt for a mate for his lonely gorilla, Gargantua...
...Face, New Job. To hustle reconversion along still faster, Home Front Czar Fred M. Vinson last week put an old face into a new job. He named gorilla-shouldered Robert Roy Nathan, 36, as his deputy to take the place of Major General Lucius Clay. Businessmen were quick to note the significance: General Clay was Czar Jimmy Byrnes's deputy for war production; Nathan will be Fred Vinson's deputy for reconversion. Among other duties his job will be to see that the Army does not overestimate its needs, thus postpone reconversion work...
...TIME (Dec. 30, 1940) devoted considerable space to the approaching marriage of Gargantua, the gorilla, and the popular pet, M'Toto. Perhaps due to my own negligence, I have never heard anything more about the proposed match. Can you bring me up to date on this...
...around as though it were a dewy-eyed debutante. For another thing, Blackouts never stays put. Performers improvise to their hearts' content, while the show itself has been changed 77 times. It has boasted a man who imitates phonograph records, a Chinese comic, a drum-majorette, a gorilla, an elderly lady acrobat; it has auditioned a bow-&-arrow champion, a camel, and a skunk. Of the original cast, only Murray and Marie Wilson have not dropped...