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This weekend, anyway, they preferred watching more serious monkeyshines of the Planet of the Apes species.

From Time ● Aug. 7, 2011

An orangutan called Clyde does cute monkeyshines that recall the heyday of Jack Lescoulie and J. Fred Muggs on the Today show.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some British teaplanters found the Dafias' monkeyshines vastly amusing and rewarded them liberally with gifts of precious salt, clothes and trinkets.

From Time Magazine Archive

To make the point crystal clear, Castello Branco's tough old War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva went on TV last week to remind everyone that the military will stand for no monkeyshines.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a mild way we and our fool monkeyshines came to be a well-known institution.

From Gold by Stewart Edward White




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