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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

Around the league he is known as a "loner" who shuns locker-room monkeyshines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Martin warns that Promise Keepers must keep alert for all the usual pitfalls facing fast-growing revival movements: financial monkeyshines, personal malfeasance and demagoguery.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"We'll have no more monkeyshines," he said severely.

From Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance by Hutchison, Paula




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