Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pale chalks, my palsled monkey, all my pretty nerves...
...Russian dandy (Mischa Auer) who knew her in St. Petersburg arrives, and the strain of playing two people in the same town drives her to marry, not the Creole gallant, but a handsome, young riverboat skipper (Bruce Cabot) who met her in the park one day when his monkey got fouled in her carriage...
...Monkey Suit. In San Jose, Calif., a man sued his wife for divorce on grounds she took her pet monkey to bed with them. Ruling that a man too supine even to kick his wife's monkey out of bed deserved no divorce, Judge Charles Davison granted the decree to the wife instead...
...Last week it began its second Manhattan season, none too well-heeled, but hopeful of an extended engagement at the Majestic Theatre. Besides Gala Performance, it had some other new ballets: Three Virgins and a Devil (by Agnes de Mille), a Daliesque-Italian-primitive trifle in which a monkey-like Satan deftly garners three damsels; an enlarged version of Billy the Kid (by Eugene Loring, with music by Aaron Copland), a rich, loamy piece of Americana; Pas de Quatre (Anton Dolin), reconstructing the performance which the four greatest 19th Century ballerinas gave before Queen Victoria...
This year's Smoker Committee will not have to strut much stuff to outdistance last year's which caused a nearriot by announcing the appearance of Ann Sherldan at the gathering and then showing a monkey by the same name...