Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monkey Hill in the London Zoo, home of 40 Abyssinian baboons, had to be closed to the public last week. The monkeyshines there had become no laughing matter. George, a young member of the baboon colony, had stolen a female belonging to the "king," the oldest, largest baboon of Monkey Hill. Taking her into an inaccessible place, he had piled up a barricade of sticks and stones. The king, who still had another mate left, squatted nearby, uninterested, curiously watched the indignation of other colony members...
...last went Hollywood. Baldish, white-haired, with lined, long face, honest eyes, he looks his type: the mental and moral bulldog. He has written more than 50 novels, books of essays, plays. Some of them: The Man of Property, The Patrician, The Dark Flower, To Let, The White Monkey; (plays): Justice, The Fugitive, The Mob, The Skin Game...
...While admitting that there might be truth in one individual's alleged prophecy that when this private investigation of myself was finished 'Nye would be selling papers on the depot platform at Fargo, N. Dak., or grinding a hand organ for a dancing monkey,' my answer to the question as to what I shall do about it is only this...
Tennessee. Democratic Senator William Emerson Brock, Chattanooga candy man, appointed to succeed the late Lawrence Davis Tyson, was nominated for the short Senate term (to 1931) over Dr. John R. Neal, Knoxville attorney in the famed Scopes ("monkey") trial at Dayton. He will oppose F. Todd Meacham, Republican senatorial nominee, in November. For the Democratic nomination for the full Senate term Congressman Cordell Hull of Carthage and Andrew L. Todd were prime candidates. Congressman Hull, 58, Spanish War Veteran, entered the House in 1907, became a potent member of its Ways & Means Committee, wrote the first income...
...Listen Harry, I like your face. Let me give you a hot tip: lay off Chicago and the money hungry reporters. No one man will ever realize just how big it is, so lay off. . . . They'll make a monkey out of you. No matter what dope you give that grand jury, the boys will prove you're a liar and a faker. You'll get a trimming...