Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assets or the price of steel was $129 a share, the result would have been similar: The House of Morgan would have found itself alone in buying what everybody else was eager to sell at such prices. And if Morgan & Co., finding it was being made a monkey of, suddenly ceased buying, the bottom would have dropped out of the market for steel shares. Had that happened the Securities & Exchange Commission would have descended on Morgan & Co. with severe reproaches. When Secretary Morgenthau suddenly ceased buying in quantity in the London silver market last week, there was no international...
Altogether, those concerned with the animal research mourn the passing of most of the animals to the new laboratories, but no one has been moved to tears over the vacant monkey cages...
...Chicago's suburb Palos Park, Mrs. Florence Zeller gave her dead ring-tailed monkey, Monty, a $35 embalming, a white plush coffin and a fine funeral with four small children as pallbearers. To an assemblage of neighborhood children, two live monkeys, a bulldog and a cat, Mrs. Zeller's daughter-in-law read the 23rd Psalm. Absent was Mr. Zeller...
Barber Breen of the Manter Hall Hairdressers, on the other hand, believes that monks were the first to use the short clip. "The short haircut is properly called monkey haircut," he said, "because the monks are the originators. The name monkey was given it by a Mr. Schneider, head tonsorial artist of the Hotel Vendome 41 years ago. He was the first to give the short clip and should know the proper title for it," Mr. Breen concluded...
...Heel (by Martin Flavin: Walter Hampden, producer) is a distressing piece of mumbo-jumbo showing Tragedian Hampden as a Negro elephant-keeper in a zoo. Mr. Hampden and the invisible elephant love each other for being big. strong, noble. When a high-yellow wench, urged on by a jealous monkey-keeper, saps Mr. Hampden's integrity, the elephant, outraged, knocks his friend down with a blast of dusty air. The monkey-keeper gets the elephant job. makes a mistake, is promptly killed...