Word: monkeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suit. Counting the resignations of President Wilbur Norton (by Avery's order) and four vice presidents (by choice), this brought Ward's total loss to eight top men. Still there was no sign that 74-year-old Chairman Avery had changed his single-track mind about running "Monkey Ward" to suit himself and no one else...
...grim-faced Sewell Avery served the nine directors with an ultimatum: choose him or Norton. The directors, most of them old cronies of Avery who had seen him pull "Monkey Ward" out of the red and up to the second biggest merchandising business in the country, soon made their choice. The secretary of the company then phoned Norton at a Boston hotel; he "requested"-and got-Norton's resignation from his $100,000-a-year...
Avery had scored a clean K.O., but it had left Monkey Ward punch drunk. As one bigwig said, with vast understatement: "This is just no way to run a business. It's a question of how long Avery can get away with it-a big question...
Dances, yesterday's symposium, and special entertainments rounded out the non-stop program. Sporadically entertained by the Glee Club and the Band, the 1800 also were serenaded by assorted other musicians including a troop of Scotch bagpipers, an accordion player and an organ grinder with an aging monkey. Bobby, the monk, who winters in the Square, drew plaudits and coin as he entwined his tail around bare ankles...
...whipped cream, and Mrs. Lucas usually cooks a sample of everything beforehand, so the audience can see how the dishes ought to look, without waiting for them to cook or jell. On the air, Mrs. Lucas does it all over again, explaining her tricks in a no-monkey-business British accent. Her principal television bugbear is common to every kitchen: how to get everything ready at the right moment. Sometimes she has to gloss over the end of her TV bill of fare in a hurry; again, she may have to ad-lib with her eggbeater, in order to fill...