Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a monkey again just for tonight...
...seems, definitely, that the hoof and mouth disease is the one thing in the world that is too dangerous to monkey with...
...leading editors were apparently outwitted by a press agent. A man, who signed himself "John Cromartie," wrote to the Director of the Bronx Zoo,'New York City, and suggested that the Zoo was incomplete without a specimen of the human race, and offered himself for exhibit in the monkey house. The New York Times printed this information and reported what the Zoo-Director said he had replied to the offer...
...York World, to remark: 'Here's one original thought,' writes Mr. Brisbane in The American. 'John Cromartie, citizen of New York, writes to the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, saying he'd like to be exhibited in the monkey house with the other primates, to show how much man resembles the ape." It is, as Mr. Brisbane so well puts it, an original thought. Original, it must be added, with Mr. David Garnett, author of the just-published A Man in the Zoo.* By a strange coincidence Mr. Garnett hit upon the name John Cromartie...
Representative John Joseph Kindred of New York was summoned South. Eight monkeys had escaped from his monkey farm. He is a doctor, is raising monkeys purely for experimental purposes in gland transplanting. Congressmen laughed, but Dr. Kindred, like Ponce de Léon set out for Florida...