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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Called on Account of Darkness? | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Puppets' Progress | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...Niece of King George II, daughter of the late Alexander, who was fatally poisoned by a monkey bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: King Counseled | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...Another monkey, Rupee, roams New Delhi headquarters in a complete sergeant's uniform, has been vaccinated according to Army regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Battlefront Beasts | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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