Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other notable items: a delicately carved jade burial mask designed to fit over a mummy's face; a breastplate with three leaping, snarling jaguars; a gold flute on which two baby lizards crawled; a toothpick-size silver spoon with a tiny monkey perched on the handle-designed to scoop wax out of a Peruvian aristocrat's ears...
...while it seemed that Leicester's marriage might change the course of history by provoking his angry Queen into marriage herself. When France's Duke of Alengon sent an ambassador to sound her out, Elizabeth fondly nicknamed the ambassador "her Monkey," and hugged him to her breast on public occasions. When the hopeful Duke-an ugly little man with pockmarks-scurried over, Elizabeth mooned with him in corners and proclaimed him her long-sought true love. But overnight she decided that he was just a pest-and summoned sweet Robin to escort the Duke home again...
...Monkey Business. In Portland, Ore., several monkeys in the zoo found some walnuts, discovered that the natural stain in the husks made a fine cosmetic, painted themselves gaudy greens and golds. In New Orleans, a pet monkey, egged on by two small boys, climbed into an "iron claw" slot machine, garnered $60 worth of clocks, fishing reels, and other knickknacks...
...case was prosaically listed ". . . Vashti McCollum v. Board of Education . . ." but it had some of the same features that made the Scopes "monkey trial" a sideshow of the '20s. And, though the decision would immediately affect only the citizens of Champaign...
...liking them. But he is also a steel-hard soldier with a vast respect for unbending discipline and the same reverent regard for spit & polish that he got at the U.S. Military Academy almost 40 years ago. Tokyo's Japs can expect fair and efficient treatment. But no monkey business. And no favors...