Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler. Since last June, when he defeated the Clements-Wetherby machine in a bitter fight over control of the state party, Happy has been as determined as ever to wreck Wetherby's cause. Although Happycrat Chandler now denies that he is ready to sling a monkey wrench at his own party, his monkeyshines prove otherwise; e.g., he has neglected to instruct his 20,000 state employees to 1) contribute the traditional 2% of their salaries to the Democratic campaign fund, 2) help get out the vote. Last week, though he made it a point to greet...
...building's imperceptible vibration. Even more remarkable than the feat of putting it together is Sculptor Lippold's assurance that he can disassemble The Sun, pack it away in handy-sized packing crates. ¶ In Minneapolis the Institute of Arts had on view a 21 in. bronze Monkey and Her Baby, by 74-year-old Pablo Picasso. To make his ,lonkey, Picasso took a child's toy auto for a head, car spring for a tail and a machined iron sphere for a body, shaped in the rest with clay. The end product: a heavy-footed baboon...
Died. Judge John Tate Raulston, 87, Tennessee county judge who presided at the celebrated Scopes "monkey trial" (1925); in South Pittsburg, Tenn. A Fundamentalist himself, Raulston helped get Biology Instructor John Scopes, 24, indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution to his county high-school class by reading the opening chapters of Genesis to the grand jurors of Bible-belt Rhea County, presided at the trial as Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow relentlessly badgered Special Prosecuting Attorney William Jennings Bryan with agnostic Biblical quiddities. Baited by Darrow, Raulston snapped: "I hope you do not mean to reflect...
...that young Countess "Bunny" Esterhazy and "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith could meet society in proper style. Their parent-step-parents, Hungarian-born Banker Arpad Plesch and his four-times-married wife, laid out an estimated $25,000 to make the evening a success. At another party, given at the Monkey Club, an exclusive shelter and society finishing school for young ladies, a silver fountain gushed red wine all evening. "We wanted to have something original," explained the father of Debutante Christine Thorowgood. "Besides it's good wine...
...hold skilled technicians in the Navy, and here, progress has its own price. Explains an enlisted missileman at Norfolk: "This new equipment is getting so complicated that the makers find a junction area and slap a little black box over it. No one but the civilian technical representative can monkey with this little black box. The Navy man loses contact with his equipment. He begins to think about getting out so he can become a tech rep and work with the little black box himself...