Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York American said that he said: "We got along swell for a year. Then Mae was offered $350 a week and I said 'Go on up,' and I went back to my single act. We were divorced later." Mae West: "The nerve of a brass monkey! . . . Nerts! ... Let him show a marriage license or divorce papers...
...Leningrad's Institute of Experimental Medicine, half of a monkey's blood was drawn off. While the animal was kept alive by artificial respiration, the blood was filtered and chemically purified, piped back into its owner...
...eminently sound men as the gentlemen of the New York Assembly. After all, nothing can be radically wrong in a world from which nudism has been banished. Assemblyman Heck, however, who said in reference to the Tennessee evolution law: "As a result of that, Tennessee earned the name of 'monkey state.' New York is liable to get a beautiful name of the same nature if we enact this bill into law," exaggerates, moved by pardonable pride in his own commonwealth. Many other legislatures will pass bills of equal pertinacy in the days to come; many other states will compete with...
...campaign, spent itself in the defeat of California's Upton Sinclair and his EPIC. Its successor, the Townsend Plan, touched its high watermark just before Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee put the old country doctor on the witness stand and made a monkey out of him (TIME, Feb. 18). As of All Fools Day, 1935, the largest political splash was being made by Huey Pierce Long's Share- the-Wealth movement...
Trainer Belmont and his bushy-haired daughter sang songs about canaries. Then Trainer Belmont divulged a few professional secrets. A good way to reprimand a monkey is to bite it. But canaries must be guided by patience and love. A real singing bird must start his career at eight weeks, when a conscientious master will shut him in a dark room, teach him to imitate a master canary, a human whistle or some musical instrument. A canary that shows promise should practice three hours a day and by the end of a year should have its repertoire fully developed...