Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Those who traveled less than Casanova embellished their drawing rooms with fragile fancies: a clock mounted on a chariot drawn along the mantelpiece by galloping gilt horses, or a monkey with a lorgnette in one hand and a tiny cigar in the other, smoking with bestial relish, or a dueling pistol which, with a pull of the trigger, released a tiny singing bird...
After playing "Monkey Song," Carmichael started "Stardust," very quietly. He played it through, and got people to sing with him, and then he stopped. They cheered as he walked out; there was no beer left, and the floor was covered with the remains of potato chips and pretzels. Mr. Carmichael smiled again, briefly, as he went through the door and headed for his next show...
Carmichael finally seated himself at the plane and banged out "Hong Kong Blues," "The Monkey Song," "Barbara," and everybody joined in for his "Stardust" finale...
...Monkey Business. Why are the galaxies receding? Some cosmologists have suggested an enormous explosion that blew all the matter in the universe away from a common center. The chief thing wrong with this theory is that the galaxies are moving too fast; simple calculations show that^ they would have had to start their motion at a point so close in time that the whole universe would turn out to be younger than such minor parts as the stars and the earth...
...best show in town ends tonight at the Beverly, Third Avenue and 50th: Horse Feathers and Monkey Business with the Marx Brothers...