Word: monkeyism
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...daily newspapers, more circumspect than the impetuous Lampoon, dare not antagonize a whole political machine so smoothly oiled that a monkey-wrench in the Police works hardly interrupts its powerful grinding...
...Huges Louis Dardelet, of the French Artillery, gravely contemplated the problem of things becoming unscrewed. Neither train nor airplane wrecks motivated him, but the fact that many shells became loose in their whirling trip through the air, became duds instead of explosive missiles. No mechanic, never having touched a monkey-wrench, he set about the problem in a purely theoretical way, writing upon a piece of paper "bolt, nut, parts joined...
...philanthropic, took him to France with her; lost him as soon as the boat landed. He worked as bootblack, ice-boy, thief, until he met Tommy Walsh, onetime fisticuffer, who maintained a third-rate boxing school and an oversexed wife, Martha. George entered the school, dazzled oldtimers with his monkey-like agility and his sure-fire punch. With success came Martha Walsh. George felt sorry when Tommy found out. When the World War broke out, George enlisted, drank vast quantities of liquor, did nothing startling. After it was over, he returned to boxing, won a battle with the world champion...
...land, so unique in the abundance and tameness of its wild life, that one can approach to within a few feet of wandering monkey bands, catch armadillos with one's bare hands, and startle gorgeous blue and flame macaws, the giants of the parrot family from nearby branches, is not a mythical Paradise, but Guanacaste, isolated, northwestern province of Costa Rica, in Central America...
...writers arrested in Boston in 1927 for protesting publicly against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.* Dos Passos has many friends, no intimates. He is the original of "Hugo Bamman" in Critic Edmund Wilson's novel, I Thought of Daisy (TIME, Oct. 7). Tall, anxious-browed, bald, nearsighted, monkey-gestured, he is excessively shy, extremely polite, chivalrous, stammers, cannot pronounce the letter R. Said never to use bad language himself (except when speaking of the late great Author Henry James), he admires those who do, writes about them. Unlike his books, he is brimming with youthful enthusiasm. Last September...