Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Japs again used one of their advantages: they know more about Americans and American idiom than the U.S. can ever know about "the monkey men." In a broadcast beamed to the U.S., Tokyo quipped...
...Monkey Wrenches. Busy Japs were reported trying to get peace negotiations started between Russia and Germany. Madrid was spreading disquieting rumors of German plans to reach a stalemate on the Eastern front, heave a staggering number of men across the Reich at Anglo-U.S. bridgeheads wherever they might appear in the West. The Red Army's Red Star was still loudly asserting that no second front had come into being. The new outlet for official unofficial Russian views, War and the Working Class, was politely calling departed U.S. Ambassador William Standley a spreader of statements (about publicity...
...boyhood experiences as the son of a Wapping wharf manager. With Many Cargoes (1896) he freed himself from a post-office clerkship. But though he culled some 17 volumes in the same vein for his 1931 omnibus, Snug Harbour, his best-known short story was the macabre The Monkey...
...progress of puppetry is not yet a dire threat to Free China. The Jap still clings to his ancient arrogance; to the bulk of China's masses he is still a "monkey thief." But the danger is serious...
...Niece of King George II, daughter of the late Alexander, who was fatally poisoned by a monkey bite...