Word: monkeyism
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Sunday Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, dictated a letter to the leading Ohio booster, giving him permission to toss a nominatory monkey-wrench into the works. Since Ohio's plans, and particularly those of its favorite son. Senator Frank B. Willis, had not included the Secretary of Commerce, the official entrance of the interloper made a good deal of hubbub on the second floor of Masonic Hall. Hoover has flouted the old Ohio tradition of unanimous nomination of the favorite son. No wonder Secretary Willis accuses the Secretary of "violating the decencies of politics." And by mail...
Thirty years ago, at her home in Havana, Mme. Rosalie Abreu began to collect live monkeys. She kept them in cages but under conditions as close as possible to nature. She brought chimpanzees from the Congo and from Sierra Leone. In Borneo her collectors caught the rare black ape-Mme. Abreu's is the only live one in any collection. From Gibraltar came a Barbary ape, the only native European monkey. Africa and South America contributed lion monkeys. Thumbless spider monkeys swing merrily from the trees in this private zoo. In all, there are now 130 monkeys representing...
...number of U. S. plutocrats climbs as quickly as a monkey up a stick, but to more purpose; for this number, together with statistics on import and export, chain store business, stock and bond markets, is an index to U. S. prosperity. In 1925 there were, judging by the taxes they paid to the U. S. Government, 207 men who possessed yearly incomes of more than $1,000,000. In 1926, judging by the taxes that were paid in 1927 and published last week, there were 228 men who possessed yearly incomes of more than $1,000,000. Incomes over...
...other word. Elizabeth Walker did so; she found that it meant, "a process of development." When the class heard this they wriggled on their chairs, frightened. Said one small girl, her big brown eyes very wide open, her voice very hushed: "Evolution means to come from a monkey." Principal Tate answered her quickly: "... a man named Darwin wrote a book about that theory but no man ever said the theory was true." Then Principal Tate placidly remarked: "Any one who does not believe in a policy of self development might as well . . . leave school...
When the House reassembled Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister again rose to reply Ito the Laborite attack. Prime Minister Baldwin sat, as calmly as ever, with his feet on the treasury table. Again rose the cries "We want Baldwin! We want the organ-grinder, not the monkey...