Word: monkeyed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Fay-Cooper Cole of the University of Chicago, controversial witness the Scopes' "Monkey Trial," told a Summer School audience last week that the significance of the famous Tennessee legal battle went far beyond the confines of the state...
...pooped." That still left Godfrey fans with his morning TV and radio stint and his Monday-evening Talent Scouts. In the Wednesday farewell, televised from his Virginia estate, Airman Godfrey, flying into camera in a helicopter, introduced such hearthside pals as Jocko the donkey, Petie the monkey, Goldie the palomino and a poodle named Chippie. He also read a wire from CBS TV President Merle Jones: "Please don't give up any other shows." To a Manhattan interviewer, Godfrey earlier confided some of his trials: "Every Wednesday night I'd go out of the stage door and every...
...autobiography, R.S.V.P., fickle Party Girl Elsa Maxwell, 74, dropped lowest of all the name of Egypt's fat, fatuous ex-King Farouk: "My R.S.V.P. to an invitation to dine with Farouk [in 1950] was a telegram to his equerry which read, 'I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters.' I learned that Farouk screamed like a pig-what else?-when he saw the telegram." Farouk, always in need of money, slapped a $14,000 defamation-of-character suit on Elsa, who also has little money but seldom needs it. The hearing ended last week...
...Monkey on My Back (United Artists) is a picture about drug addiction that jabs the moviegoer full of sickly thrills while piously professing that it is simply pointing a moral with a morphine needle...
...more be taken seriously than a tour of the haunted house in an amusement park, although Ross himself has not taken drugs for ten years. As the first of three opium operas that have been scheduled since narcotics became a suitable subject for Hollywood films (TIME, Dec. 24), Monkey on My Back suggests strongly that it is already high time Hollywood kicked the habit...