Word: monkeyism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fighter, famed Jack Britton, 43, onetime welterweight champion of the world, last week, in Boston, clambered through the ropes and was attacked by young and clumsy Larry Brignola. As canny as an aged monkey, Britton stepped around the ring, warding the wild, drastic punches of his adversary. In the third round, Brignola knocked a false tooth from Britton's mouth. Therefore Jack Britton drove Brignola to the ropes and kept him there with feints and clinches, ordering the referee to find his tooth and keep it. When the referee had found his tooth, Jack Britton laughed and the fight went...
...from the monkey glands of Mrs. Atherton's Black Oxen to The Immortal Marriage of Pericles and Aspasia. But classicism continues to outdo sensationalism, for the new novel concerns a spirited young Athenian who struggled to hold the fickle fancy of his fellow townsmen. Temperamentally he was unfitted for the struggle-one night's drunken debauch culminating in a ribald mock-performance of a religious rite cost him years of exile, to say nothing of his position as First Citizen. Alcibiades took terrible revenge on his city, instigating and leading a Spartan attack-until Athens was forced...
...gentle as a deer and as ugly as a monkey, little El Ouati, the Algerian Marathon runner who won the Olympic race at Amsterdam last summer came to the U. S. in order to race for Promoter Bill ("Easy") Pickens. Last fortnight in Manhattan, he ran against Joie Ray whom he had beaten, by a last minute sprint, at Amsterdam; with frightened looks behind him and a low scooping stride. El Ouati beat Ray for the second time by seven laps. After this race it was planned to send El Ouati and Joie Ray on a tour...
...suicide. Author Gibbs does not prove the necessity of something more than a "Great Design" behind evolutionary progress, but he does write an engrossing story packed with engaging data on the younger generation full of life, the older generation full of ideas, and the oldest generation full of monkey glands...
Arkansas follows Tennessee on the monkey-trial subject. Apparently a proposed anti-evolution teaching law is to be voted on there next month. But at Little Rock a day or so ago, Charles Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, agitating against that law, was arrested for violating a city ordinance prohibiting the use of the name of the diety except in "veneration or worship". He was tried on the different charge of disturbing the peace, and fined for distributing printed material "calculated to provoke a breach of the peace". Rather than pay the fine...