Word: dink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Arliss, British actor, complete with dangling monocle, baggy tweeds, traveling tea basket, parrot ("Dink"), and the world's most monumental valet (George Jenner), entrained last week in Manhattan for Hollywood, where he will make for Warner Bros, talking pictures of his two great stage successes, The Green Goddess and Disraeli. Actor Arliss had just completed a five-month transcontinental tour as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (TIME, March...
...Hinky-Dink...
Miss Ferber appears not to have included "Hinky Dink" McKenna with "Bath House" John Coughlin in the stage-setting of Chicago under Mayor Carter Harrison, an omission that should not be allowed to pass without notice...
...beer or drinks of low grade whiskey were obtainable for 5?, together with a bountiful free lunch. They were equally famed characters in the Chicago of 1890-1900. To a resident of the Windy City in those days a reference to "Bath House John" without mention of "Hinky Dink" is most incomplete...
...doubt fewer of those mammoth physical specimens from prairie farms report to Mr. Stagg as raw football candidates than in the days of Dink Stover, but the caustic critic points out that most of these demi-gods were muscle-bound, and that they dissipated in saloons and buggies, whereas the modern youth has only the ice cream parlor and the harmless Ford. Moreover, these huge giants are far too large to fit into the modern scheme of things, subway turnstiles, for example...