Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gates Dawes exhibited scholarly interest in archaeology when he visited Panama last spring. He went home to Chicago bearing souvenirs from the Mayan ruins of Cocle Province. A stone elephant aroused his curiosity specially; also, a possible original of the see-no-evil, speak-no-evil, hear-no-evil monkey images of Japan...
...loyally and enthusiastically with me in helping me do for Jesus Christ the best job of which I am capable.... As the main engineer I will say that my hand is once more firmly on the throttle, and despite the latest explosion and other puny efforts to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery, or to put goose grease on the track, the old train, thank God, is still making the grade...
...back in the sun and then cover the victim's face with a thick layer of molasses for the flies to feast upon. . . . They whip [matricides] in public, and then they sew them up in a bull's hide together with a dog, a cock and a monkey, and throw them into the Tiber...
...grime of a Massachusetts truck farm is hardly off him, before he finds himself filthy with the lucre of the "street." It even gets into his blood. He says so himself. The next thing the audience knows, old John H.'s son is discovered hotly engaged in monkey business, for which tactics he is expelled from the Stock Exchange. He jumps out of an office window so high in the empyrean that he must have been antique when he reached the sidewalk. Thus, only sorrow dogs the successful manipulator. As for the unsuccessful, their troubles are indicated by frequent...
...Monkey Talks. When the play was presented, Jacques Lerner amazed audiences by simulating the monkey who talks. In the film he looks even more beastlike. Yet the love sequence for that very reason seems more unlikely. As a man, he loves the heroine. As a chimpanzee, a disguise assumed to help a friend, he appears in circus sideshows. Under these circumstances it is no easy matter to woo a sensitive girl not wise in anthropology. Yet it is done successfully with melodramatic incident...