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...hell out of here." The cop left but returned to spy later. Rubino met from three to seven customers a day, walked them around the hospital grounds to the powerhouse and left the buyer holding the dog's leash, while he scuttled inside, mounted the dynamo "like a monkey" and reached into a hole in the ceiling above...
Missing Links. In Vancouver, B.C., police sought four tosspots who had been pushing each other into a zoo moat to entertain the sober inhabitants of Stanley Park's monkey house...
...Monkey Tricks. The lady was wrong. Even in his earliest plates, Cecil Beaton showed himself to be a remarkably gifted photographer of women. His talent for the picturesque lie, his mastery of the cosmetic power of light, his ability to observe beautiful women with a severe detachment-almost as fine pieces of furniture-produced photographs that were sometimes as exquisitely unreal as the visions of Botticelli...
...some time the biggest college news had been the publication of President-emeritus Eliot's new book "Harvard Memories," a new Radcliffe administration, and a monkey who had escaped from Anthrop House. Life was getting pretty dull for the Harvard man, until one day he picked up his morning CRIMSON and read "Ku Klux Klan at Harvard--Awaits moment to strike. 'We may be inactive, but our influence is felt' are the Leader's ominous words." The undergraduate began looking over his shoulder to see if he were being followed. President Lowell rose in wrath to expose the miscreants...
...hands cupping the inflow, and workmen and engineers presenting the water to the people in construction helmets. The south wall is dominated by a huge, bewildered-looking Negro. Near him stand a dried-up old woman-Rivera's idea of the Mexican aristocracy-and a boy leading a monkey. The monkey, Rivera says, "represents the Mexican middle class and also intellectuals, not excluding many politicians. During the 19th Century, they tried to imitate French culture and the English way of life, and now in the 20th Century they imitate the U.S., through babyish skyscrapers, hot dogs, bad English-especially...