Word: monkeyism
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...last week Charles Gimbel, son of Adam, was chairman of the company; his brother Isaac, president. Other brothers, their sons & nephews were vice presidents. Richard Gimbel, one of the third generation, was secretary. None of the Gimbels are sloths. But 28-year-old Richard Gimbel, nimble & active as a monkey on a swing, makes most of them seem ordinary...
...phantom half backs" are his specialty, but while his typewriter is busy clicking off these potent concoctions. Ted is not very much fooled, and casual observers may note a bulge in his left cheek as he builds a second string tackle and third string guard with a "likely-looking monkey wrench in Yale's classy juggernaut...
Evolution is a great thing. The monkey who swings by his tail and throws cocoanuts evolves into the man who walks upright and gets hit by the cocoanut; the callow Freshman evolves into the potent, grave, and reverend Senior; an Intercolleiate Dance evolves into a riot, and even music itself has evolved from the soft tinkling of rude strings to the raucous squawk of the saxaphone...
...Aycock and his fellows have tried in vain to obtain a serum from the blood of artifically infected monkeys, for the monkey, although the only animal susceptible to the disease, is so sensitive that it cannot survive the attack of the paralysis germ. For this reason the Commission is requesting volunteers, survivors of the disease, to come forward with offers of their own blood. So far as results to date have been tabulated, the serum treatment seems a remedy for infantile paralysis if it is administered within the three days which ordinarily elapse between infection and actual paralysis...
Round and round the vinegar jug The monkey chased the weasel; The monkey stopped to blow...