Word: monkeyism
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...climax of one of the most exciting and successful monkey hunts ever held under the auspices of the Harvard Medical School came last night at 6.15 o'clock when Dr. Carl W. Walter, Arthur Tracy Cabot Fellow, slipped the ether cone over the head of a fine male thirty-pounder...
...monkey, escaping Tuesday, six times climbed up to the top of the Medical School powerhouse and when its lashing tall was almost secured by a waiting posse on the cornice, it turned and jumped to a dormer six and a half stories below...
...seems a ludicrous way of achieving "parity" with industrial prices to introduce into agriculture the very monopolistic factors which have done so much to throw a steady flow of monkey wrenches into their works. But after all, if industry had managed to get a steady flow of monkey wrenches, it's only fair that agriculture should have them too. Justice is a consideration far higher, and more important than mere economic reasoning...
Because British warriors on horseback have not lost their effectiveness against Indian tribesmen, the Indian Army will retain cavalry until 1939, but elsewhere British cavalrymen will exchange their bridles for handle bars or steering wheels, their whips for monkey wrenches, as fast as the whole new program of creating "mechanized cavalry" can be put through. For swank British cavalrymen that meant no more polo, unless they switch to motor-cycle polo. The social implications of this order burst last week like so many bombs in the messes of cavalry units slated for almost immediate mechanization: the King's Dragoon...
...assets or the price of steel was $129 a share, the result would have been similar: The House of Morgan would have found itself alone in buying what everybody else was eager to sell at such prices. And if Morgan & Co., finding it was being made a monkey of, suddenly ceased buying, the bottom would have dropped out of the market for steel shares. Had that happened the Securities & Exchange Commission would have descended on Morgan & Co. with severe reproaches. When Secretary Morgenthau suddenly ceased buying in quantity in the London silver market last week, there was no international...