Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unknown. In Brighton, England, Zoo Keeper Peter Gibbs banged his head on a metal post, fell into a monkey cage, woke up shortly to find one of the animals seated on his chest, delightedly twirling his 15-inch mustaches...
...Montgomery Ward stockholder, "and then couldn't get out." That was only half true. In 1931 Avery, then head of prosperous U.S. Gypsum Co., reluctantly agreed to become boss of the giant mail-order house after it had lost nearly $9,000,000 in a year. He made "Monkey Ward" so prosperous in the following years that he never tried...
...believer in hunches, Dr. Shortt tackled the puzzle with conventional research methods. In a laboratory near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, he shut a rhesus monkey into a cage with 500 malaria-carrying mosquitoes (previous experiments had used 20 to 100). Just to make sure that the monkey would hatch a really bad case, he killed the mosquitoes, made a solution out of them, and injected it into the monkey's muscles and chest. No other monkey had ever been so swamped with malaria. After seven days Dr. Shortt performed a careful autopsy. Said he: "I went over every conceivable piece...
Next problem was to find a human to check the experiment on. The parasite that causes monkey malaria (Plasmodium cynomolgi) is like the parasite that causes most human malaria (Plasmodlum vivax"). He found a mental patient who was about to be given malaria anyway for treatment of general paralysis. The patient and his wife agreed that doctors could take out a small piece of his liver by a minor operation, seven days after he had been bitten by infected mosquitoes. At 5 o'clock one morning Dr. Shortt got the sliver of liver, rushed to his laboratory and worked...
...fourth man in the car appears again in Monkey Bars, a painting of a sullen couple glaring dully and fixedly at each other through a jungle gym swarmed, over by batlike children. "I paint what I've seen," says Koerner, "and I've seen that look of animosity...