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Mother-in-law: "You mean monkey-business...
...thirst for political leadership. Now, in the autumn of 1942, he reappears, happily leading a jumble of discontented people who find the existing administration of British affairs unendurable. The jumble is called 'Common Wealth.' . . . His intelligence is very limited and unstable. He is as imitative as a monkey, any claptrap that seems to be popular goes into his bag and any 'religious' cant, and his ambition for 'leadership' is uncontrollable...
Chicken Every Sunday (adapted from Rosemary Taylor's book, by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein; produced by Edward Gross) is a tall tale of boardinghouse life in Tucson, Ariz. a generation ago. A lot of it is less boardinghouse than monkey house, less chicken on Sunday than ham and corn during the week. Staking everything on laughs, Playwrights Epstein leap the boarderline of probability, cram the house with all kinds of weirdies and whacks, from a whiskey-soared giantess who yodels to a nymphomaniac who tears after Indians...
...Olson & (Chic) Johnson, hellza-poppers, told United Press Hollywood correspondent Frederick Othman that their monkey-wrench minds were already at work on the sets of their new snow: Jerks Berserk. Some of their newest secret weapons: eight seats in the third row which drop customers into the cellar, hot-water drinking fountains, dachshunds coached to steal the shoes of foot-easing women...
Simiantics. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Lee van Belden complained in court that her husband looked like a big monkey when, in the nude, he tried to shoot her with a spoon...