Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s. Along with My Parents, the show's strongest painting was The Prophet (see cut), which reminded critics of Expressionist Grosz and also of Koerner's favorite Old Master, Peter Bruegel. (Of his bony, monkey-like Prophet, Koerner said that he "might be a demagogue or a statesman, and the man hanging might be a villain or a hero. The people must listen because they can do nothing else...
Most of the 40 acts, moreover, are good; the best of them are breathtaking. On terra firma, the Rachellis-Borgianas tumble with unusual style and precision; "Natal" looks and frisks for all the world like a monkey, but turns out to be a man; Equestrienne Claude Valois and others offer some beautiful dressage; and the clowns explode a crazy new contraption called The Adam Smasher...
...until the late 1920s that an experimental animal, the rhesus monkey, was found susceptible to yellow fever...
...Bavaria, one of the highly unstable Wittelsbachs, who took 30 years to get himself dethroned. Next choice was a 17-year-old Prince of Denmark, who reigned 50 years, but was assassinated; his son Constantin was twice exiled, his grandson Alexander died after being bitten by his pet monkey; and his grandson George II has been in exile twice to date...
Harvard's Quentin M. Geiman and Ralph W. McKee said that they now know, pretty well, what foods the monkey parasite thrives on-para-aminobenzoic acid (a B complex vitamin), glycerol sodium acetate, certain other vitamins and amino acids. They have also been able to test the effect of antimalarial drugs...