Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have no recollection of games, or playing with other children. My favorite occupation as a very small child was to deliver thunderous speeches to the servants, standing on a high table." At four, she was being taken by her mother to party congresses. At twelve, she organized "the Monkey Brigade," whose small members specialized in sneaking past British soldiers with political messages; at 24, she was in a British jail...
...only 22%. The clincher, for Dr. Keys, is to be found among Yemenite Jews who had no coronary disease in their native habitat but have begun to develop it since they migrated to Israel and adopted its high-fat diet. Yet the amiable, blubber-eating Eskimos throw a monkey-wrench into the dietary-fat theory. In Alaska, they live for months at a time on the fat of island seal and whale, but even among their oldsters fatal atherosclerosis is rare...
...good enough realist to have a watercolor of the Seattle waterfront hung in a major exhibition. In 1926 he gave up both local notoriety and his studies at the University of Washington to go to San Francisco, where, between part-time jobs as grease monkey, bank clerk and restaurant waiter, he worked on his style ("There was nobody there to tell me I was wonderful"). Back in Seattle he tried commercial art. (Says his wife: "Kenneth's heart just wasn't in it. He was always leaving...
...worldly problems seemed to be many, moreover. A former fellow tenant of Grover's describes him as "antagonistic, a brute, and a pretty fresh monkey, always ready to pick up his fists...
MICHELANGELO complained about noise and marble dust in our profession," says Sculptor David Smith, "but I finish the day looking like a grease monkey." Sculptor Smith's complaint reflects the rise of a new phenomenon in the art world: a flood of wire and metal shapes that is turning many a sculptor's studio into something resembling a blacksmith's shop, where the oxyacetylene torch has replaced the hammer and chisel, a welder's mask the smock...