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Word: monkeyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simiantics. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Lee van Belden complained in court that her husband looked like a big monkey when, in the nude, he tried to shoot her with a spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 6, 1944 | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Norval, through no doing of his own, is at once ridiculous, pitiful and a national hero. As he shows up in his splendid new uniform, flashbulbed, bewildered, happy, homely, still unaware of what is in store for him, he receives the brass-band salute aptly paraphrased as "AND the MONkey wrapped his TAIL around the FLAG POLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...order, his tribesmen did not follow, lest their spoor disclose the king's whereabouts to the white man. When Lobengula learned that his people had surrendered, he built a great fire and threw upon it the leather ring of his authority, his girdles, his sporran of blue monkey skin. Then he said to the chosen few who were with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Skull of Lobengula | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

Commandomen searched Gibraltar, came in with disheartening news. Five more of the Rock's historic apes were dead! From 17, the Rock's monkey colony had recently shrunk to eight. Two of the bodies just found were those of Adonis, also called Scruffy, and Antonio. They were rival leaders of the pack, potential fathers of future generations. The bodies were beyond postmortem; there was no way of proving that it was an Axis poison plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Apes of the Rock | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

Ginger Rogers was fashionable Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski's idea of the ideal model for a statue of the typical woman defense worker. He put her into plaster, standing on a pile of gears with a baby in one arm, a monkey wrench in the other. In her next movie, Lovet-Lorski's typical woman defense worker plays a typical woman defense worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

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