Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women and overalled children fringed the parade route, skittering along the sidewalks behind the posted American Legionnaires, who wore their monkey-caps and their one hour's importance solemnly. From the sidewalks came an occasional "hurray!" From the factories, from the men of Pontiac, came boos, hisses...
...assistant, another piece to another, then puts them together in private. Not since 1927 has he performed in the U. S. During the interim he toured the world. He was in Berlin when war broke out. Promptly the Nazis ordered him out of Germany. Says he: "That monkey in Germany cost...
...expenses, $1,000 for his old age. Pint-sized Carl Laemmle Jr. found his stretching exercises had added an inch to his height. Orson Welles continued directing his film Citizen Kane from a wheel chair after falling down stairs and cracking his ankle. George Washington Peter, a ring-tailed monkey, had to take out an A. F. R. A. union card so he could chatter monkey gibberish over a radio show called Little Old Hollywood. Chatter-chirping Louella Parsons discov ered that pretty Virginia Bruce (Mrs. J. Walter Ruben) was expecting a "little stranger" in six months...
America's oldest motorboating trophy, the Gold Cup, is a gold-plated silver urn that looks like an inverted Napoleon's hat. It was put up in 1904 by Manhattan's Columbia Yacht Club, to give the "monkey-wrench sailors" something to race for. Yachtsmen still think motor-boatmen are crazy. But there are enough mechanically-minded U. S. citizens, willing to spend $50,000 for a boat and 500 hours a year tinkering with it, to make the Gold Cup race one of the most exciting sport events...
...Hawk Thorpe begins his career by a swashbuckling attack on a Spanish man-o'-war, carrying King Philip's ambassador (Claude Rains) and his proud niece (Brenda Marshall). To appease Queen Bess (Flora Robson) for this shocking violation of neutrality, Hawk Thorpe gives her a pet monkey and some soft words, sets out to replenish her treasury and hamstring King Philip by hijacking the Spanish gold train in Panama...