Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always separated from human Milestones by what printers call a hair line, after the end of the human list. The death of Blue Boy, star hog cinemactor of State Fair, was thus reported, as were the deaths of Rin Tin Tin, Balto, Khartoum the elephant, Psyche the laboratory monkey...
BOYLSTON HALL: Chinatown. Lots of transients gather here, and usually "bring their own." Chinese food unexcelled. Interesting monkey house on the roof...
...butchering of monkeys is prohibited. Monkeys possess many traits of men, including intelligence. Therefore, they should be protected. The serving of monkey meat or monkey brains is hereafter prohibited in Canton...
Clevelanders who had impulsively planted the seeds of Reform and had then left the fruit to be choked by the weeds of oldtime political organization, Philadelphians who had just succeeded in throwing a small monkey-wrench into the long-lived Vare machine, New Yorkers who were putting their second Fusion government in 20 years into the City Hall, could benefit by looking to well-governed Cincinnati for a lesson. The lesson was fresh from the presses in highly readable book form, City Management: The Cincinnati Experiment - by a bright young man who had associated himself with the movement from...
...Chinese terminology 1929 was the Year of the Serpent, 1930 the Year of the Horse, 1931 the Year of the Sheep. 1932 the Year of the Monkey. U. S. automobile men, who produced 5,621,000 cars in 1929, might have little objection to these names: 1930 (3,510,000 cars) was comparatively a year for the horse; 1931 (2,472,000 cars) left the motor industry looking rather sheepish; 1932 (1,431,000 cars) made monkeys of those who had high hopes for an automobile comeback. To the Chinese, 1933 was the Year of the Cock...