Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other word. Elizabeth Walker did so; she found that it meant, "a process of development." When the class heard this they wriggled on their chairs, frightened. Said one small girl, her big brown eyes very wide open, her voice very hushed: "Evolution means to come from a monkey." Principal Tate answered her quickly: "... a man named Darwin wrote a book about that theory but no man ever said the theory was true." Then Principal Tate placidly remarked: "Any one who does not believe in a policy of self development might as well . . . leave school...
When the House reassembled Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister again rose to reply Ito the Laborite attack. Prime Minister Baldwin sat, as calmly as ever, with his feet on the treasury table. Again rose the cries "We want Baldwin! We want the organ-grinder, not the monkey...
...last week Charles Gimbel, son of Adam, was chairman of the company; his brother Isaac, president. Other brothers, their sons & nephews were vice presidents. Richard Gimbel, one of the third generation, was secretary. None of the Gimbels are sloths. But 28-year-old Richard Gimbel, nimble & active as a monkey on a swing, makes most of them seem ordinary...
...phantom half backs" are his specialty, but while his typewriter is busy clicking off these potent concoctions. Ted is not very much fooled, and casual observers may note a bulge in his left cheek as he builds a second string tackle and third string guard with a "likely-looking monkey wrench in Yale's classy juggernaut...
Evolution is a great thing. The monkey who swings by his tail and throws cocoanuts evolves into the man who walks upright and gets hit by the cocoanut; the callow Freshman evolves into the potent, grave, and reverend Senior; an Intercolleiate Dance evolves into a riot, and even music itself has evolved from the soft tinkling of rude strings to the raucous squawk of the saxaphone...