Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small theatre 50 stories above the street, in Manhattan's Chanin Building, a "mobile"-one of the famed contraptions of Sculptor Alexander ("Sandy") Calder-stood on the stage, its burnished discs blazing in the spotlight. Before it, in slinky black gown and monkey-fur jacket, swayed a woman whose saucer eyes, blazing teeth, and hair like a jackpot of fresh-minted pennies made her look remarkably like Harpo Marx. A friendly, arty-social audience applauded. Marianne Oswald, diseuse (singing actress), friend of intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic, was making her U. S. debut...
...truckload of refrigerators, took on an extra salesman. By last week's end the refrigerators were all gone and Storekeeper Ballew had moved some $8.000 worth of merchandise. With one week to go he addressed a final plea to his customers: "Folks, it's just like the monkey said when the lawn mower ran over its tail -it won't be long now. We must clean up our stock before we join the ranks of the State's non-paying guests...
...Kansas City, Mo., tenants of Mrs. Mary R. Pratt complained that she was housing a zoo. Police discovered in her basement: two owls, a goat, four Shetland ponies, a police dog, a tribe of cats, a monkey, a full-grown lion. Annoyed, Mrs. Pratt said the tenants could move whenever they felt like it. The police left. The animals remained...
...basis that the nasty old Democrats have refused to amend the inequities in the law. New Dealers were content: they admit only infinitesimal flaws in the law, think it needs mostly more enforcement. Only Messrs. Cox, Barden & Co. were infuriated-gone was their last chance this session to heave monkey wrenches into the law's workings...
...Smoker Committee's highly advertised "Mystery Woman," introduced as "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan turned out to be a monkey of the same name appearing in the musical "Keep Off the Grass." With a frightened look, she skated around the stage once and retired...