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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rhymester Funk | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ding, Dong | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: C'Toonist | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potent Pictures | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1931 SEXTET MEETS BULLDOG TEAM TODAY | 2/25/1928 | See Source »

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