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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

Around the league, Maris is known as a "loner" who shuns locker-room monkeyshines, rarely displays emotion on or off the field.

From Time Magazine Archive

An acrobatically agile cast, including Michael Crawford, Geraldine Page and Lynn Redgrave bring the monkeyshines to a high polish.

From Time Magazine Archive

And I don't aim to take no back-talk from a wall-eyed, long-legged, chuckle-headed brat; that's hired to help his poor old dad and who spends his time cuttin' monkeyshines with a dorg.

From Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune


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