Word: monkeyism
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...universe "shaped exactly like a pint of beer, in which the nebulae were the ascending bubbles." This was the astronomical discovery of another young man "who was invariably spurned by the girls, not because he smelt at all bad, but because he happened to be as ugly as a monkey." Such Collier characters naturally gravitate into the company of demons, nymphs and other undesirable elements. They have only to approach a secondhand shop, zoo, greenhouse or midnight bridge when the fictitious rational world dissolves and Author Collier is at home among the fierce realities of the occult. Even a huge...
Among other Europeans who had made their mark in 1940, one was short, squat General John Metaxas, Premier of the Greeks, who had made a monkey of Benito Mussolini. Another was Britain's Union Leader Ernest Bevin, who became a tower of strength in Britain's Government, who rallied Labor to Britain's cause, who became a symbol of the breakdown of class distinctions by which Britain achieved a new unity to fight her battle...
Newspapers reported that she knits for the poor, that she was kissed by an ape at Dr. Voronoff's monkey farm near Menton, France, that young female operagoers at the Met banded themselves into "Lily Pons Fans," in imitation of the "Gerry-flappers" of Soprano Farrar 20 years ago. A Maryland town, whose chief industry is water lilies and goldfish, eight years ago publicized itself as well as the diva by taking the name Lilypons. The full flowering of this pun occurred when Lily Pons sang to the lily ponds, while politicos, from Maryland's Governor on down...
...above him. He went aloft to see what was the trouble. He found ". . . most of the men dead. . . . About 20 men were being attended to by the doctor. A shell came over and I guess it finished them." The third salvo had carried away another forward gun. Another powder monkey (in peacetime a London cabby) later recalled how after half an hour, "my gun was hit directly. . . . There was a terrible sound and the gun and its whole crew were blown completely off the ship...
...that point a monkey wrench-apparently flung from the general direction of the Army Ordnance-clunked into the works. The astonished State Department was informed that the War Department disapproved of this deal on two grounds: 1) machine tools needed to make Johnson guns could better be used to make weapons on order for the Army, 2) the Johnson designs, although unwanted by the Army, constituted military secrets which should not be sold even to friendly powers. Military brasswigs had neither forgotten nor forgiven Inventor Johnson's original...