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Word: monkey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Actress Estelle Taylor, wife of retired Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey: "I'm going to ... stay with the stage as long as I can hold myself together. When I lose my youth I'll resort to monkey-glands and face-lifting. . . . Babies? Never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...comics, here plays a small-town boy so superstitious that on the thirteenth of every month he wants to stay in bed clutching a rabbit's foot. After long and laughable complications he is seen at the picture's climax entering a racketeer's headquarters armed with a monkey wrench to rescue the beautiful kidnapped daughter of a rich lawyer. There is more fun in The Gang Buster than its plot would indicate. Oakie is good and so is William Boyd as Gangster Mike Slade. Best shot: Wynne Gibson as a gangster's moll sending innocent Oakie out to telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 2, 1931 | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...with a hunter as companion, Pilot Clyde Ice shot a coyote, landed, tossed the animal into the cockpit. As the plane flew on again the coyote revived, started fighting its captors. The ship spun crazily while Pilot Ice turned to help his friend. He ended the battle with a monkey-wrench - favorite weapon of airmen for subduing rambunctious passengers and panic-stricken pupils.* Pilot Ice got back to his controls just in time to prevent a crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Jan. 12, 1931 | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...live apes in the world. Rich, eccentric Senora Rosalie Abreu of Havana was the first human successfully to rear a chimpanzee born in captivity. Excessively difficult, this feat has been performed only seven times, and of these seven records, four go to the credit of Cuba's famed "Monkey Mistress." Some years ago this good lady's sister Martha, tolerant of chimpanzees, died. For reasons of their own the Monkey Mistress's son Pierre and daughter Lilita moved to Paris. Senora Rosalie was left alone in Havana with her 120 simians. Last week in her sumptuous Villa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Monkeys for Machado | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

Mobbing together, they attacked the bad baboon's barricade. After two days of siege, George and the female grew hungry, tried to get out. The monkey mob mauled them, chased them back. Then in the shadow of his hiding place, George killed his stolen female, ignominiously. Monkey moralists were satisfied. The wife-stealer was allowed to come out unharmed. The king, still uninterested, sat by, blinked, ate a peanut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wife-Stealer | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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