Word: monkeyed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Antiquity of Man. No sane anthropologist asserts that man descended from an ape or monkey. The family tree of primates charted by Sir Arthur Keith shows New World monkeys branching off a common stem in the Eocene Age (2,000,000 years ago), Old World monkeys diverging later in the same period. In the Oligocene Age (1,200,000 years ago), the great upright primates reached a fork. One branch ends up with the gorillas, orangs and chimpanzees of today. The other continues steadily toward Homo sapiens...
First scenes were acted at Murchison Falls, 150 mi. up the Nile from Victoria Nyanza. Miss Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...
...Chopin *Overture to "Leonore" No 3 Beethoven *Ballet from "Rosamunde" Schubert *Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breve" de Falla "Cricus Day," Fantasy (Eight Pictures from Memory) Op. 8 Deems Taylor I. Street Parade II. The Big Top III. Bareback Riders IV. a. The Lion Cage b. The Dog and Monkey Circus c. The Waltzing Elephant V. Tight-Rope Walker VI. Jugglers VII. Clowns (First Performance in Boston) *Concerto for Pianoforte No. 2 in G minor Saint-Saens Soloist: Elizabeth Trvers Behnke *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *To a Water Lily MacDowell Trepak Russian Dance Ballerian...
Neither the hoariest monkey nor the most venerable boa constrictor on the jungle shores of Gatun Lake had seen such a sight as took place on that cobalt body of water last week. For 48 hr. a file of warships in pairs, by the dozen, by the score streamed steadily westward through the Panama Canal...
While playing backgammon in the garden of her villa at Juan-les-Pins, France, Maxine Elliott, oldtime actress-beauty, was nipped on the ankle by her pet monkey, Kiki. Furious, Queen Elliott had Jester Kiki's teeth pulled out. Next day Queen Elliott, appeased, took gory-gummed Kiki for a walk...