Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Tennessee. Democratic Senator William Emerson Brock, Chattanooga candy man, appointed to succeed the late Lawrence Davis Tyson, was nominated for the short Senate term (to 1931) over Dr. John R. Neal, Knoxville attorney in the famed Scopes ("monkey") trial at Dayton. He will oppose F. Todd Meacham, Republican senatorial nominee, in November. For the Democratic nomination for the full Senate term Congressman Cordell Hull of Carthage and Andrew L. Todd were prime candidates. Congressman Hull, 58, Spanish War Veteran, entered the House in 1907, became a potent member of its Ways & Means Committee, wrote the first income...
...Listen Harry, I like your face. Let me give you a hot tip: lay off Chicago and the money hungry reporters. No one man will ever realize just how big it is, so lay off. . . . They'll make a monkey out of you. No matter what dope you give that grand jury, the boys will prove you're a liar and a faker. You'll get a trimming...
...Pluto was unlucky. Drawing lots with his brothers Jupiter and Neptune (Saturn was their father, Rhea their mother) for the kingdoms of heaven, sea and the infernal regions, Pluto got Hades. Previously named for Pluto: a purgative water, a species of monkey...
...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...
...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...