Word: monkeying
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Most paleontologists have discarded the theory that man defected from the ancestors of apes and dropped out of the trees only a few million years ago. The common ancestor, if there was one, now appears to have lived far earlier. This might be a kind of primate with mixed monkey and ape traits, or even an ancestor of the imp-eyed little Asian tarsier, which was a groundling before it took to the trees; anatomically, man has much in common with such animals. If Hurzeler's 4-ft. creature is what he says it is, the earliest manlike creature...
...Look at the Teeth. Oreopithecus lived in Miocene-period marshes, which are now coal areas around Grosseto, in central Italy. His first fossil bones were found in 1872, have always been labeled monkey fragments. But in 1949 Hurzeler became convinced that Oreopithecus was a higher type. For years he pored over bits of jaws and teeth at Basel Natural History Museum, where he is curator of vertebrate paleontology...
...Land Act"), was once married to a peer, but has come down to being the wife of the dim, unemployable Jeavons ("He was something left over from the war"). One could meet "absolutely anybody" at Lady Molly's, including her cats, her "four principal dogs," and her monkey called Maisky (after the Soviet ambassador). "Not long ago Lord Amesbury looked in on his way to a Court ball, wearing knee breeches and the Garter. Lady Molly was giving the vet a meal she had cooked herself...
Died. Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 63, Russian satirist, who was at the top of the 1946 Soviet purge list of nonconforming authors; in Leningrad. The work singled out by the purgers was Adventures of a Monkey, the story of a marmoset that escapes from a zoo hit by a fascist bomb, awkwardly adapts to the Soviet society on the outside, at one point decides: "Oh, dear, it was silly to leave the zoo. You could breath more peacefully in the cage...
Between Philip Wylie and Sigmund Freud, there's not much left of masculinity. Women have taken our jobs, our trousers, and our initiative. They've gone to war--from policewomen to WACs. Slide rules, monkey wrenches, automobiles, and the vote belong to them, not to mention high society and the supermarket. This is crisis...