Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, in a peroration calculated to bring tears to the eyes of a brass monkey, the Mayor pointed to his 30 years of serving Jersey City "faithfully and honorably," pleaded with his citizens "to continue the confidence in me and my associates," promised that fate would vindicate his administration "because our cause is just and our courts are honest...
...India monkeys are sacred and punishment is frowned on. This does not promote discipline among monkeys. Bands of them often meet trains at stations, looting food and other articles of interest to monkeys. Lucknow University recently complained that in the chemistry laboratory a girl student had been bitten by a monkey. Wrote a Lucknow citizen to city authorities: "Apart from the damage monkeys cause to my garden, one attacked a small child of one of my servants and tore from its nose the nose ring." Said Dr. E. A. Douglas of Lucknow's Lady Kinnaird Hospital: "For four days...
Last week the city of Lucknow engaged a contractor to catch Lucknow's monkeys, alive and unharmed, at the rate of one rupee, four annas (39?) per monkey. The city proposed to deport its monkey population to distant forests by special train. Total estimated cost: 10,000 rupees...
...Praise. By this time many a pious Hindu, including the two most famed pundits of the time-Gauri and Vaishnavcharan-declared that this walking pantheon was himself an Incarnation of God. Other pious folk thought him a madman. His strange acts while in trance varied from imitating a monkey to feeding Kali's food to a cat. Later he made fun of people who proclaimed his divinity by pointing to his left arm, which he had broken in a trance, and saying, "Have you ever heard of God breaking...
...what degree they had been met. He said he believed that Brigadier General Philip R. Faymonville, head of the U.S. Supply Mission in Moscow, had such information. The Admiral added: "There seem to be obstacles to the flow of American munitions to this country. Someone may have dropped a monkey wrench into the machinery. I tell you frankly I do not know just what the picture is." In other words, the U.S. Government had not given its Ambassador to Russia the facts about aid-to-Russia...