Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sayre started selling appliances for Kelvinator in 1925, moved up to national sales manager in four years. He switched to Montgomery Ward as appliance boss, in two years converted a $900,000 loss to a $900,000 profit (and became one of the rare "Monkey Ward" alumni to leave on good terms with crotchety Sewell Avery). Then Sayre moved over to Bendix to introduce the nation's first line of automatic washers for the home, sold 42,000 before a single production model came off the line, and eventually put out more automatic washers than all his competitors combined...
...Japanese delicacy favored by Sam Welles is toasted octopus cooked in oil over a charcoal brazier. John Dowling lists a dish he was served in Pnompenh, Cambodia: monkey soup and noodles. One day in 1944, far from his usual Georgia cooking, Correspondent Bill Howland arrived cold and hungry at an Alaskan trading post that boasted a cook who was half-Eskimo, half-Russian. Howland was invited to have dinner. Says he: "It was roasted young bear, garnished with potatoes and gravy, as savory as any dish turned out by Escoffier." On one of his northern trips, Bob Schulman discovered...
...time the field reached Melbourne, it had dwindled to 134. Murray, whose car was rattling along on cracked shock absorbers and a twisted frame, jettisoned half a ton of equipment for the climb across the Australian Alps and home. Wearing rubber monkey masks as a final gag, he and his navigator, Bill Murray (no kin), dawdled through the mountains, stopped now and then to take movies, and rolled into the Sydney show ground last week easy winners. In 17 days on the road they were the only entrants who lost no points...
...foursquare Gospel discovered by Graves & Podro purports to be the Word as it was before the Gentiles began to monkey with it. Jesus, in the Graves-Podro work, was "a man of unusual learning, wit and piety," a member of a small apocalyptic sect. He was adopted by Mary Magdalene, crowned King of the Jews by John the Baptist at a ceremony that included a ritual mockery and beating. This, according to the authors, is where the mocking and scourging by the soldiers of Pilate really belongs. The Graves-Podro Jesus decided to bring on the Kingdom by his death...
Racing to the rescue and rendered careless by the fate that had overtaken their friend, his two comrades ran straight into the arms of the law. In the monkey house at Auckland, freedom was once again only a dream and a memory...