Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until 1913, when he got fed up with success. Moving first to Manhattan, then to Barcelona, finally to Paris in 1920, Picabia poured out bucketfuls of Dada, including his noted Portrait of Cézanne, Portrait of Rembrandt, Portrait of Renoir, Still Lives (all this consisting of a stuffed monkey mounted on a board...
...seen of moonlit nights near the cult's farm. Neither Dean Neidlinger, however, nor a sheriff, nor newshawks who visited the farm saw him. Heavenly Gates declared: "I have found the peace I have been looking for." Dean Neidlinger, satisfied there was "no monkey business" about Gates's trip to the farm, departed announcing that Gates was still free to return to Dartmouth. At length, after four days of wrestling with what by week's end had become the most publicized young conscience in any U. S. college, Harrington Gates returned. Dean Neidlinger recorded his absence...
...year period from Samuel Butler's Erewhon to Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, writers have thrown tons of literary monkey wrenches into capitalism's mass-production machinery-with about the same effect as a man kicking the sideboard he stubbed his toe on. Machine-hating writers still evoke sympathetic response, but another school has lately gained ground...
...Louis families who have given the museum gifts and endowments worth $400,000 let it be known that these would lapse if the museum's administration were changed. Remarked the Museum Board's portly president, Architect Louis La Beaume: "There has been nothing like this since the monkey trial at Dayton, Tenn...
...prosecutor of the famed Monkey Trial of evolution-teaching John T. Scopes (TIME...