Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divorce from her merchant-mariner husband, Capt. Horace Brown. Two days later, Columnist Hedda Hopper reported "the strangest reconciliation in Hollywood's history." Brown's story to Hedda: "I don't know why she took me back, because I'm a beast. I bought a monkey as a pet, and the monkey bit her. I pulled the phone out by the roots. I went down to her sister Rose's house and shot out all the lights in her driveway. I pushed her in the swimming pool. I turned the fire hose on her friends...
...evangelism with hard-headed business sense. Born in Richford, Vt., he was still a boy when his family moved to the West Coast. He quit school after the seventh grade, made his first money selling pictures of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. He learned mechanics as a grease monkey in a garage, later set up his own earth-moving and contracting business at Stockton, Calif, on a loan of $4,500. In 1931, he lost $32,000. Next year he switched to making scrapers, bulldozers, cranes, etc., and made his deal with God. His 1932 net: $52,000. LeTourneau...
...supposedly routine meeting of the French cabinet one day last week produced an announcement that had all the contours of a big diplomatic monkey wrench. The French, in an abrupt departure from the agreed-upon tactics of the Big Three allies, asked for a four-power conference with Russia on the question of Germany...
...some time the biggest college news was the publication of President emeritus Eliot's new book, "Harvard Memoirs," the inauguration of Radcliffe President Miss Ada Louise Strong, and a monkey who escaped from Apthorp House. The Harvard man's tranquil horizons were suddenly expanded when one October day he picked up the morning CRIMSON and read, "Ku Klux Klan--Awaits Moment to strike." "We may be inactive, but our influence is felt," were the words of the leader of the two-year-old Harvard branch. The undergraduate began to watch for flery crosses and was not reassured when the Klan...
This avocation had its hazards. Once, while the naturalist was still a medical student, a pet capuchin monkey named Gloria became bored and romped through his study. She dragged a bronze lamp across the room and heaved it into an aquarium. Then she unlocked a bookcase, removed Volumes 2 and 4 of Strumpel's textbooks of medicine, tore them to shreds and stuffed them in the fish tank. Lorenz returned to find fuses blown, empty book covers on the floor, and his sea anemones tangled in torn paper...