Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time it looked as if Howard Hughes might have pulled one monkey-shine too many. A lot of people in & out of T.W.A. were getting fed up. One was CAB Chairman James M. Landis. Others were officials of RFC, who had practically promised early this year to lend T.W.A. $60,000,000. But RFC was smarter than it had been when it sank $19½ million into Hughes's 750-passenger "Hercules." With the "Hercules" some two years be hind schedule, RFC's faith in Hughes was dwindling...
...panto cat, goose, monkey, donkey or horse, which romps amidst the audience and is played, as a rule, by some little old man who has donned his moth-eaten pelts every Christmas for the past 40 years...
...welcome in Moscow from the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS). Out of Mombasa, British East Africa, bound for New York, steamed a merchant ship captained by Jonathan M. Wainwright V, the General's son, whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew off, but the car somehow remained right side...
...could rightly say that ponderous David Ignatius Walsh was a wild-eyed New Dealer who threw monkey wrenches at business. David Walsh is a conservative Democrat who has held his seat in the U.S. Senate for 26 years; along the way he has done many a favor for Massachusetts manufacturers and businessmen, many of them Republicans...
Also-rans included a tight-trousered farmer holding two Japanese flags, two old soldiers with elaborate monkey faces, and a tall samurai (honorable warrior) dolled up in a black kimono and sporting real hair wound into a topknot. The show's general manager, a weathered old farmer who looked more like a scarecrow than some of the exhibits, was moved to remark with a sly smile that "samurai now hold no terror for crows...