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...Critics and Faustophiles flocked to the performance, found it a travesty, to be sure, but not wholly irreverent. One of them regretted that Faust had not thought to use a fountain pen, that Mephistopheles had not thought of a monkey gland operation; commended, nevertheless, the Opera Society's enterprise; prophesied a profitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Song | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Died. Bessie Coleman, 26, "the world's only Negro aviatrix"; at Jacksonville, Fla., after a half-mile nose dive made by her plane when its controls became jammed by a monkey wrench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

...must to all men, death came last week to Krao Farini, "the missing link," who had a long black beard and monkey hands. She died of influenza in Manhattan (where she was with Ringlings' circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Caged | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...cartilage in her nose. Hair covered her body and grew monkey-wise (up instead of down) on her arms and legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Caged | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...mature persons Zip has always been lacking in appeal. His sharply domed cranium, monkey-fur suit, and ingrowing personality, seem all too slight an excuse for the sizable cheques which he has drawn for many years from the Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Caged | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

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