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...anti-aircraft base in China has a monkey named Taps who can tell the difference between the engines of U.S. and Jap planes; he gives the alarm by chattering and rattling his chain, then takes cover, invariably beating the official alert...
...While the Nazi bombers came over in formations of 30, a suburban bus drew up. "All hell seemed to have broken loose in the air above and all around us, "but the bus conductor sat quietly totting up his receipts. The guard told a story: "There was a bloody monkey hanging by his bloody tail in the jungle . .. and along came a bloody air-raid warden. One monkey says to the other monkey, 'Look out, Jock, here's this bloody bastard comin' along to civilize...
...monkey wrenches-adjustable spanners...
Chile's Herrera was not copycatting anybody. He was middleaged, had painted a lot before he ever saw Rousseau's work. His father, a successful businessman, called all artists "monkey drawers," made his son swear by the Holy Virgin that he would not take up art as long as his father lived. Young Luis kept his oath till he was in his middle 30s. But when he was a schoolboy he made such beautiful maps that his geography teacher told the other children to copy them...
...Heydrich on the cover, we planned to put just one noose in the background, but the artist had so much fun drawing its intricacies that he kept right on tying knots until there were ropes enough for 22 executions. And the only reason I can find for the little monkey hanging from a tree behind Java's Governor Ter Poorten was that our artist did not like Japs...