Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis County history. Queerest theory advanced was that Catholic missionaries, some from Africa, convening in St. Louis last month had brought genuine African sleeping sickness. Autopsies on three victims showed the brain red and pressing down on the spinal column. Serum from the brain of one victim killed a monkey, left a rabbit unscathed...
Twenty-two years ago Composer Strauss wrote another opera whose plot depended upon disguise and mistaken identities. In Rosenkavalier, the most charming and successful of his works, a young Austrian nobleman dresses as a lady's maid, makes a monkey out of a lecherous old baron and after a series of richly comic episodes wins the girl whom the baron intended for himself. Arabella follows Der Rosenkavalier in many of its details. The impecunious old Count puts on a drinking act as blatant if not half so funny as old Baron Ochs's. A richly-scored waltz dominates...
...Raising the discount rale in August 1929, and the Hatry crisis in London, precipitated the debacle which was spurred on in 1930 when the Hawley-Smoot tariff threw a monkey wrench into world commerce, in 1931 by the failure of the Creditanstalt in Austria, the German moratorium and England's abandoning gold. The Glass-Steagall bill produced improvement last summer which was promptly undone by President Hoover's Des Moines speech ("could not hold to gold . . . but two weeks longer"), controversy over War Debts and publication of R. F. C. loans which caused runs on banks...
...director. His personality is very soothing to the animals, and also to an orphan girl about to be bound out for five years. Both, through appropriately creditable motives, become embroiled with the Budapest gendarmarie, and hide away in an abandoned bear den. They are joined by a monkey, a little boy lost, and in the nick of time the villain. The role of the latter is promptly and gratifyingly usurped by a midnight sortie of lions and tigers from their cages. The picture also begins to escape at this moment. For the rescue of both one is admiringly grateful...
...same time he tossed a deft monkey wrench into the Conference's gears. Nation after nation was withdrawing objections to Ramsay MacDonald's Disarmament Plan (TIME, March 27). One of its chief points-elimination and destruction of present stocks of heavy siege guns, large bombing planes and tanks weighing more than 16 tons-was in a fair way toward adoption when up stepped Joseph Paul-Boncour...