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Word: monkeyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dropping, you won't be able to keep the kids indoors anyway.") A man from the gas company feelingly urged his fellow wardens not to attempt any repair jobs on broken gas-mains, etc., but to send for him-"and for God's sake don't monkey with any loose wires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, CIVILIAN DEFENSE: To Meet the Improbable | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...production dream in U.S. history. It multiplied astronomically impossible figures by five and hoped that each figure would show up as something hard, tangible, useful or deadly: a tank, a gun, a ship, a plane, a truck, a tent, a uniform, a mess kit, a blanket, a parachute, a monkey wrench, a lathe, a screw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Away With Butter! | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Writer John Collier (His Monkey Wife) was ordered by a Los Angeles court to pay Actress Shirley Palmer Collier $150-a-week temporary alimony pending trial of her divorce suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mouthpieces | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...strange, monkey-like animal, probably the most sophisticated exponent of his species, is well acquainted with all the luxuries of air and ocean travel. He is now comfortably settled in Cambridge, happy with the eggs in his cage which he can squash and lap up at will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Peruvian Animal Loves Liquor, Women's Legs | 10/1/1941 | See Source »

Although the "suppression" of such widely known news makes the press almost as big a monkey as Secretary Knox, the biggest monkey of all is made of the general public that is supposed to be kept in ignorance even of things which Hitler must know. But apparently U.S. officials take a childish delight in having a "secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: When is a Secret? | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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