Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived who could be certainly counted as sane . . . it was the man who had in charge the finances of England . . ." Yet in the frenzied undercover drama that took place in the British capital during the years of the American Civil War, no character was made more of a monkey than the Chancellor of the English Exchequer...
...action less than half the game. Army's amazing 145-lb. Halfback Charles ("Monkey") Meyer found time to make two touchdowns in the 32-to-0 debacle that marked Harvard football...
...this time Quebec cohorts of Vice, in the persons of the city's taxi drivers, had gone violently to the rescue of girls and madams, swinging monkey wrenches and auto jacks in their onslaughts upon Virtue's students. In the thick of the battle Quebec patrons of the resorts attempted to preserve a neutral attitude, diving into closets and under beds. When finally police began to arrive and make arrests the students were nearly victorious, shoving the few remaining girls out of doors into the cold autumn night...
Bolshevik males who happen to dislike Journalist Radek and the small fringe of whiskers around his round face have called him "that ugly little Jewish monkey." Once his name was mentioned by defendants in the recent Plot-Against-Stalin trial, farcical though that was, the Soviet Commissariat for Internal Affairs set secret police to see what they could "get" on Radek. In Russia such agents seldom fail on such assignments. The object in this case was to link Radek with Stalin's enemy, Trotsky...
...which the General Staff recently told the French Cabinet that they now had only the minimum requirement of gold necessary for national defense in case of a general European war. In the jargon of economists, there was last week "no technical reason" why it should have been necessary to monkey with the franc, but there was just about every other reason...