Word: monkeying
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Newspapers reported that she knits for the poor, that she was kissed by an ape at Dr. Voronoff's monkey farm near Menton, France, that young female operagoers at the Met banded themselves into "Lily Pons Fans," in imitation of the "Gerry-flappers" of Soprano Farrar 20 years ago. A Maryland town, whose chief industry is water lilies and goldfish, eight years ago publicized itself as well as the diva by taking the name Lilypons. The full flowering of this pun occurred when Lily Pons sang to the lily ponds, while politicos, from Maryland's Governor on down...
...above him. He went aloft to see what was the trouble. He found ". . . most of the men dead. . . . About 20 men were being attended to by the doctor. A shell came over and I guess it finished them." The third salvo had carried away another forward gun. Another powder monkey (in peacetime a London cabby) later recalled how after half an hour, "my gun was hit directly. . . . There was a terrible sound and the gun and its whole crew were blown completely off the ship...
...that point a monkey wrench-apparently flung from the general direction of the Army Ordnance-clunked into the works. The astonished State Department was informed that the War Department disapproved of this deal on two grounds: 1) machine tools needed to make Johnson guns could better be used to make weapons on order for the Army, 2) the Johnson designs, although unwanted by the Army, constituted military secrets which should not be sold even to friendly powers. Military brasswigs had neither forgotten nor forgiven Inventor Johnson's original...
...Anderson. Clayton & Co., has come out of recent anti-New Deal retirement to work for Nelson Rockefeller, coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Regulations with Latin America, the National Defense Council's agent for nudging U. S. commerce toward a hemisphere basis. Cottonmen were relieved that if defense must monkey with their crop, it would be done Will Clayton's way. 2) If U. S. exports of raw cotton to Japan were cut off, presumably so would be Japan's exports of cotton goods to Latin America, which were a substantial 113,152,000 square yards...
...relatives, who provide, he says, his listening audience. He also likes to dwell on the doings of his dog, sometimes known as Only-Game-Fish-Swim-Upstream. Celebrated are his ribaldries. On winter nights he has announced that the cold has compelled Ripley to take the brass monkey inside, occasionally instructs actors who happen in on his show to recite "anything from Shakespeare to Dr. Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly munched razor blades during her interview, a ladies' sportswear manufacturer, who described...