Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judging from the front pages of various Sunday prints it would seem that at least one engineer has felt and keenly resented the often heard references to greasy hands and awkward monkey wrenches. At least he is determined that the younger generation shall not follow in these same steps and has vigorously exhorted the graduating class at the Tech to change their collars every evening, presumably to rid themselves of the stains of honest toll acquired from too close contact with the machine age during...
...beaming Irish woman with a shawl over her head. An efficient staff was busy all last week dealing with birthday presents; but to find out which of the vast collection ever reached the "P'incess" would be like probing a state secret. Two sure bets: the mechanical monkey sent by Queen Mary, the Cairn terrier pup from Edward of Wales. Even in the U. S. there are babes who ape the styles set by "Baby Betty." Several smart Manhattan stores offer imported "Princess Elizabeth prams" (perambulators) at $250 each. Yellow, however...
...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...
...have thought of all kinds of useful things that Vivian could do. She could organize a Missionary Expedition into the interior of Africa to teach the Monkeys sanitation and hygiene. She might help her father publish a paper on the cure of infantile paralysis. (Just buy a monkey and never handle him with gloves or "fub" him and you will know how to take care of that dread disease...
...once believed that the earth was flat, but not even a monkey could believe he was related...