Word: dinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invading hordes of Nassau look a trific weary today there may be more behind the halting step and the glassy eye than the effects of gazing upon Yankee Boston or the defeat at the hands of Penn last week. For the grand old Tiger tradition of the "dink" wars and the "cane spree" had a bloody post-war renaissance last week and the Princeton Freshmen and Sophomores are still counting their bruises...
During the war both practices disappeared from the Tiger campus and up to about two weeks ago it looked as if dinks at Princeton were doomed to extinction. But a mass meeting of the Class of 1950 on October 23 considered the question "to dink or not to dink," and the next morning the Princetonian headline proclaimed "Class Of 1950 Upholds Tradition; Freshmen Without Dinks To Starve...
...Dink Draw...
...dink tradition," an editor's note comments, "was being imposed by force on similarly-protesting Freshmen long before Mr. --- was born, and the Princeton spirit seems to have survived the strain...
...successors to Capone's power, came to his wake. Hymie ("Loud Mouth") Levin, another underworld kingpin, sent flowers. So did politicians from the First Ward. But the funeral at old St. Mary's Catholic Church was a disappointment-half the seats were empty, and Hinky Dink got only three automobile loads of flowers, as compared to Bathhouse John's seven...