Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...live apes in the world. Rich, eccentric Senora Rosalie Abreu of Havana was the first human successfully to rear a chimpanzee born in captivity. Excessively difficult, this feat has been performed only seven times, and of these seven records, four go to the credit of Cuba's famed "Monkey Mistress." Some years ago this good lady's sister Martha, tolerant of chimpanzees, died. For reasons of their own the Monkey Mistress's son Pierre and daughter Lilita moved to Paris. Senora Rosalie was left alone in Havana with her 120 simians. Last week in her sumptuous Villa...
...Monkey Hill in the London Zoo, home of 40 Abyssinian baboons, had to be closed to the public last week. The monkeyshines there had become no laughing matter. George, a young member of the baboon colony, had stolen a female belonging to the "king," the oldest, largest baboon of Monkey Hill. Taking her into an inaccessible place, he had piled up a barricade of sticks and stones. The king, who still had another mate left, squatted nearby, uninterested, curiously watched the indignation of other colony members...
Mobbing together, they attacked the bad baboon's barricade. After two days of siege, George and the female grew hungry, tried to get out. The monkey mob mauled them, chased them back. Then in the shadow of his hiding place, George killed his stolen female, ignominiously. Monkey moralists were satisfied. The wife-stealer was allowed to come out unharmed. The king, still uninterested, sat by, blinked, ate a peanut...
...last went Hollywood. Baldish, white-haired, with lined, long face, honest eyes, he looks his type: the mental and moral bulldog. He has written more than 50 novels, books of essays, plays. Some of them: The Man of Property, The Patrician, The Dark Flower, To Let, The White Monkey; (plays): Justice, The Fugitive, The Mob, The Skin Game...
...While admitting that there might be truth in one individual's alleged prophecy that when this private investigation of myself was finished 'Nye would be selling papers on the depot platform at Fargo, N. Dak., or grinding a hand organ for a dancing monkey,' my answer to the question as to what I shall do about it is only this...