Word: dinge
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, from whose drawing-board in Des Moines, Iowa, comes much that is memorable in pictorial politics, considers that the cartoonist's status is that of a court jester. If "Ding" ever crusades, it is always in the lighter vein. He serves a nationwide syndicate which contains a wide variety of political sympathies. He tries to be non-partisan but is clearly classifiable as Dry and anti-Tammany...
...Dartmouth freshmen. In entering upon the final contest undefeated the Freshmen have duplicated the feat of the 1927, 1928, and 1929 sextets. The 1980 men, led by R. L. Summers '30 working together in a fast attack with C. R. Lakin '30, met defeat at the hands of Captain "Ding" Palmer's Blue team of last year, breaking the succession of three years' triumphs. Both the Dartmouth and Princeton freshmen have met defeat at the hands of the Yale team. McLennan, right wing, and Nelson, center, the Eli leader, have been the outstanding players of the Blue aggregation...
Motley is the color of such semipolitical commentators are Will Rogers, Mayor James J. Walker. Cartoonists "Ding" and Briggs. Texas Guinan...
Thus the start should play an unusually important part in tomorrow's race. If the crews get away even, they will probably have a ding-dong battle throughout the four miles to the New London bridge, for although Yale has the edge in experience, the crews are almost equally powerful. Yale's advantage in experience--six Elis have raced the four gruelling miles as opposed to four Harvard sweep-swingers, and Laughlin has rowed two winning races while Watts has never set the pace in a four-mile contest--gives the Blue whatever slight pre-race odds there...
...Norwood ("Ding") Darling was ejected from Beloit College (Beloit, Wis.) for a disrespectful sketch of a professor. He settled in Des Moines, Iowa, and has not budged thence for years. His most famed cartoon: "The Long, Long Trail" (reprinted universally on the anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's death...