Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forum for May appeared an interview from Dr. Serge Voronoff, Russian surgeon of Paris, so-called " monkey-gland man" (TIME, July 30). One Armstrong Perry,-* agitated by "the doubts expressed by physicians before and after Voronoff's demonstration at Columbia University" and by "the flippant comments of unthinking critics," journeyed to Paris and to the gate of "the restful garden in which goldfish swim in transparent waters under rose bushes and leafy trees." He found Dr. Voronoff to be "tall, slender, dark, magnetic." Said the Doctor: "You should understand that every physician attends school for many years. His professors...
...Some of my ancestors have hung by their necks, but none have hung by their tails," said Dr. John Roach Straton last night at the Phillips Brooks House, speaking on "Evolution versus God, Monkey Men, and Monkey Morals...
...John Roach Straton, prominent New York clergyman and leader of the Fundamentalist element in the Protestant Church, will speak in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, tonight on "Evolution versus God, Monkey Men and Monkey Morals." Dr. Straton will be introduced by Richard M. Sears '24, and the meeting, which will begin at 7.30, will be open to all men in the University...
...family albums in the Home-of P. T. Barnum and his "industrious fleas," his "Anatomical Venus," his "Magnificant Moving Diorama of the Funeral of Napoleon Bonaparte," his educated dogs, his Albinos, his questionable "Fejee Mermaid" (which turned out to be a gruesome object "made from parts of a monkey and a fish, and purchased from a Japanese sailor who must have had a great deal of time on his hands")-the days of elegant soirées attended by "the very elite of society-scientific, elegant, highly respectable, and probably the richest and purest in town...
Thomas A. Edison: "At a luncheon given by the cinema industry in my honor, I danced a jig, jokingly accounted for my capers by saying I had monkey glands. Besieged by literal-minded reporters, I explained that there was no literal truth in my remark...