Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who find in the world's armor of convention the vulnerable joints through which to prick with tiny irritating shafts and barbs have always been a persecuted brotherhood. When jesters were really in fashion, the indignities were such uncomfortably tangible things as straw-beds, and a monkey or two to share the couch. In latter days, Puritans, police and preachers contrive to make life at least exciting for the Merry Andrews, and, incidentally, to provide further food for fun. But not until now, so far as we can tell, has merriment and its disciples been subjected to the dissecting...
...world, and they are never superior types. Your country has shown both its strength and its wisdom by protecting itself from too much infiltration. . . . The trouble with the melting-pot is that the grease comes to the top. . . . When we consider the interval separating Pasteur from the monkey, it seems to me the Negro has traveled a long distance in his short contact with Western civilization. Next year I am going to Africa to study the ancestors of these Western Negroes. ... I confess I have been rather shocked at some things I have seen in your theatres and cinemas...
...Serge Voronoff, gland specialist: "Last week I prophesied in Paris 'Monkeys will talk and men will live to be 125 years old.' I went on to relate that I have grafted glands on 1,000 human beings. I have grafted glands on sheep so successfully that their wool yield has been largely increased, 16 pounds added to their weight and their lives prolonged six years. Now I have a monkey farm at Mentone on the French Riviera where I am raising monkeys to supply the tremendous number of monkey-glands that the world will soon demand...
...Government profit. The company, with 60 subsidiaries, has lost money, forcing stockholders to endure three refinancings; and now they were asked to approve a fourth-to reduce the values of their shares from ?4,000,000 to ?2,374,954. Grief over stockholders' losses and suspicion of financial monkey-business caused shareholder Norden's outburst...
...Dayton, Tenn. (Scene of the famed monkey trial...