Word: clink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Demetrios Tselos of Princeton, Vice Consul Konstantine Konstandas. The guest of honor (who was unfortunately unable to be there because of a pressing engagement to wrestle in Toronto) was lion-chested Christopher Theophilus, more widely known as Jim Londos, world's heavyweight wrestling champion. High above the clink of coffee cups sounded the praises of Greek artists, poets, professors and diplomats, for their champion, his musical ability, his culture, his extensive library, his college education...
...darkened theatre, tired but happy in his working clothes (grey suit, blue shirt), he heard his opening night audience say just that. Next day he heard the critics say it, unanimously, vociferously. And then the paying audiences began saying it every night, with burst after burst of glad applause, clink after clink of hard dollars...
This cash is pooled with the national Unemployment Fund. The worker, as his pennies clink merrily in, comes to have a pleasant, capitalistic sense of "money in the bank...