Word: monkeyism
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Convertibles v. Textbooks. Once it was considered hilarious when the engineers kidnaped the law president, and paraded him up & down State Street in a monkey cage stolen from Vilas Park Zoo. The returning G.I. generation had little heart and less time for such pranks; it hit the books with a sense of urgency, of "lost" years to make up. The G.I.s did well: they consistently studied harder, and averaged higher grades, than nonveterans...
...match monopolies, gets a percentage from the electric power companies. Lately, son Tachito has been cut in on the gravy. He got a 40% share in a new airline hauling mining machinery from the U.S. and meat to Cuba. When a Nicaraguan worked up a profitable new business shipping monkeys to the U.S., Tachito heard about it. Now a Somoza is in monkey business...
...Tories' best argument is that it would be dangerous to monkey with steel in a time of world crisis. In private hands, the industry is flourishing, producing more ,than ever before. Many right-wingers within the Labor party are extremely dubious about nationalization. Recently one Laborite M.P., Ivor Thomas, 42, M.P. for Keighley, resigned from the party rather than support the government's program. Speaking from the opposition benches last week, Mr. Thomas said: "The most obvious result of the government's activities in the past three years has been an immense concentration of power...
...Angelic Monkey. Poet T. S. Eliot, invited to tea to meet him, remembered "a man in spectacles, who appeared to combine a frail physique with exceptional vitality . . . He . . . was modest and unassuming to the point of humility: that unconscious humility, one discovered later, was in him a natural quality . . . which made one, in time, feel very humble oneself in his presence...
...Lewis described him as "tall, slim, straight as a boy, though grey-haired. His face we thought ugly: I am not sure that the word 'monkey' has not been murmured in this context. But the moment he spoke it became, as was also said, like the face of an angel ... a spirit burning with intelligence and charity...