Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again last week Secretary of the Navy Knox's rules of "voluntary censorship" made a monkey out of the U.S. press...
...since the Tennessee monkey trial had there been such clownish witch-hunting as went on in Georgia last week. Cigar-chewing, red-suspendered Gene Talmadge ran amok through Georgia colleges, chasing furriners (i.e. non-Georgians) and Negro-befrienders. "There was a lynching in . . . the Capitol of Georgia Monday," said the Atlanta Journal, describing the ouster of Walter Dewey Cocking as dean of University of Georgia's College of Education (TIME, July 21). At week's end the Governor had knocked out two more important Georgia educators and provoked serious retaliation...
Last week Leon Henderson found that his price domain ends at the water's edge. He tried to monkey with the price of coffee, and ran into the Department of State, which is in the coffee business itself...
Lehr's reference to monkeys was no figure of speech. One afternoon last month an anteater, a monkey and the editor of the News occupied the same office. This cozy spectacle did not confuse readers who dropped into the News office at Quarry Heights, the U.S. Army's headquarters in the Panama Canal Zone. Old friends of the editor, Master Sergeant Clay Doster, had no trouble whatever in identifying...
...holds several decorations, knows how to buck up the morale of the men in the remote, hard-driven Panama Coast Artillery Command (TIME, MAY 26). He puts on an act - every day in person, once a week in the lively, mimeographed pages of the News. The monkey and the anteater are parts of the act. So is his official pseudonym in the News: El Toro Ferdiliza. And so are the screwy lines which stud Editor Doster's paper (OUR EDITORIAL POLICY: SLAPHAPPY. OUR MOTTO: "Blessed be he who bloweth hsi own horn, for his'n shall be blowed...