Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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...
...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...
...picture, he soon discovered, was to illustrate an article on the theory of evolution. His likeness had been selected apparently because it bore so striking a resemblance to that of a gorilla. More, it was possible to derive the implication that he, Stanislaus Zbyszko, was no better than a monkey. Growling, Stanislaus Zbyszko called in his lawyer and planned a $250,000 suit against the paper...
...spend money. Perhaps that is why, in all her subsequent vicissitudes, she has gratefully kept his name. One week in Manhattan she spent nearly a million dollars. Just shopping. He bought her a house in Coral Gables, Miami, and the neighbors complained of the stink from her monkey house. Said Peggy: "Can I change the direction of the wind...