Word: dink
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...meet lasted through two hot, dusty afternoons at Franklin Field. The first day, when a light breeze scarcely spun the wind indicator, Southern California was the favorite until Coach Robert Lyman ("Dink") Templeton surprised everyone by entering his star quarter-miler, Ben Eastman, in the half-mile heats. Eastman, said to have the most saving style of any middle-distance runner in history, won so easily that critics began to see how Stanford, with 16 men qualified for the finals to Southern California's 13, might pile up enough points to win the next afternoon...
...headed, squint-eyed, friendly, Templeton is celebrated particularly for his success with weight throwers. He once studied the leg-motions of ostriches in the hope of finding out something that would improve his sprinters. Dink Templeton writes his own newspaper copy. He prepared a story soon after last week's meet in which he called McCluskey the most courageous runner he had ever seen. He also said: "His [Graber's] five points, three and four-fifths more than Bert De-Groot took with his tie for third, provided the decisive blow which killed father...
Miss Brice does her celebrated Jewish interpretation of Peter Pan ("It ish Dink-a-Bell!"). She is again very funny as the slightly Semitic Southern girl in her travesty on Strictly Dishonorable, but not so funny in a maudlin recitation of Dorothy Parker's Telephone Call. Mr. Baker trades gags with his fat friend in a box, sings an ingratiating song called "Under The Clock At The Astor," indicating with his stick "females and he-males and she-males, and girls who bear loneliness well." Attention is called to the best of Crazy Quilt's songs...
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...
...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...