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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

If the musical stuffed shirts wanted more blatant examples of undignified monkeyshines, he could refresh their memories.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fumbling seductions and moneyed monkeyshines fill Donleavy's tall tale of a rich and dreamy young man wandering aimlessly through Paris, Dublin and London.

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

"Run, then; an' if Job abuses you, just let me know it, an' I'll keep him from cuttin' up any monkeyshines."

From Toby Tyler Or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by Otis, James




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