Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Linton Perry knows that he is silly to do his trick. Dr. Smith explained to him that unless he ceases his monkey shines instanter, one of these days he will go blind. He will stretch his optic nerves so much that fibres will tear. Or he will jar loose the retinas in his eye balls...
...Monkey, Seldom is anyone killed in a mystery play whom the audience would care to have live. When Banker Kenmore of Monkey is shot his demise not only removes one more objectionable character from the world of fiction, but considerably enlivens a play. For Banker Kenmore was a vicious old rascal who sent his wife to an asylum, tried to blight his daughter's romance, kept a mistress. His death brings to the stage an extremely agreeable detective named "Monkey" Henderson, an eccentric police officer whose physique and peculiar actions have earned him his sobriquet on the force. Performed...
...charged his brother with assault. He said that one hot summer day when he had been sewing an eyeshade for his weakened eyes, Capt. Fred Nutter had come into their room, put a calendar in the window to spoil the light, then whacked him with a monkey wrench. Capt. Edgar Nutter angrily insisted that his brother was too "bossy," that he should be safely jailed before he killed someone with the shoe-hammers and wrenches which he habitually used for weapons...
...York. He wanted to study hormones, especially those of the pituitary gland. With him went his friend Dr. Claus W. Jungeblut. Dr. Jungeblut was interested in infantile paralysis. Both experimented with monkeys. When they took their subjects off to their separate laboratories many a monkey friendship was broken up. Not so with the doctors; outside their laboratories they discussed their respective work. In one of their discussions they reasoned thus: Dr. Engle was studying pituitary hormones, which can stimulate early sex maturity. Dr. Jungeblut was studying infantile paralysis, which usually occurs before sex maturity. Might there be some connection between...
...Full-page advertisers were headed by the Del Rio Chamber of Commerce, which blurbed: "We have the utmost faith & confidence in Dr. & Mrs. J. R. Brinkley and those who made this great station possible." Cinema theatres advertised "XER Gala Week" featured by the Four Marx Brothers in Monkey Business. Dr. Brinkley and XER filled seven of the eight columns on the News's front page. The whole city went on a three-day jubilee, featured by a banquet in honor of Dr. Brinkley. Dr. Brinkley was not there. His plane from Wichita had been forced down...