Word: ding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin it is sometimes popularly supposed that the titanic rivals in U. S. finance are J. P. Morgan & Co. and Dillon, Read & Co. Last week, pink-cheeked, socialistic, optimistic Finance Minister Rudolf Hilfer ding found himself short of cash for year-end budget requirements. He hastily sought to arrange an $100,000,000 loan with Dillon, Read & Co. by cable...
Aladjalow, Peter Arno, Peggy Bacon, Bruce Bairnsfather, Ralph Barton, Franklin Collier, Miguel Covarrubias, Adolph Dehni Do Miskey, Ding, Leonard Dove, Fruch, Bud Fisher, Haupt, John Held, Jr., Helen E. Hoskinson, Rea Irvin, Karass, Rollin Kirby, Kronengold, Edward Nagle, Alan Odie, Gardner Rea, Gluyas Williams, Alexander Calder, and D. T. Carlisle...
...Ding, dong bell, Market gone to hell! Who put her there? Little Tommy Bear! Who'll geeva pull? Little Johnny Bull! What a naughty little pup To eat the paper profits up. Contributor Funk was obviously a man of substance, conscious of the stockmarket. His subsequent contributions would have revealed him, to any between-lines-reader, as: a fatalist; a hedonist conscious of women, tobacco, liquor; a bad golfer; a married man whose thoughts sometimes stray afield; a middle-aged married man whose thoughts always return homeward. Wilfred J. Funk dutifully summed himself up, in fact, in his opus...
...army, completely mobilized, equipped with hand grenades, field artillery, machine guns and submachine guns, took the field, led by a squadron of 20 roaring battle planes. Kwantung gunboats shelled the rebels from the river. Kwantung airplanes shelled the rebels. For days the line of battle wavered to and fro- ding, dong-Kwangsi. Kwantung. The Kwantung airplanes and gunboats finally settled the scale. The attacking Kwangsis retreated with heavy losses, leaving 1,500 captives...
...still alive-&-kicking-alive enough to have gained and retained fame as a grand exalted past master of cartooning. His kicking is what has kept him from enjoying the mass reputation of men like Ding. Briggs, Bud Fisher. Something in Art Young resents contracts, syndication and orders as to what ideas he shall draw. He has free-lanced for 35 years in Life, Puck, Judge, Metropolitan and many another magazine, past and present, rather than earn the "big money" that Arthur Brisbane once told him he deserved as a syndicate artist. It was natural, perhaps. that just after giving this...