Word: dinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though they have had only a week of outdoor practice, the stickmen have been working out for the last month in Briggs Cage, and have already shown flashes of mid-season form, especially around the enemy cage. Dink Donahu and Jay Hurley, veterans of last year's medicore team, will be first in line when starting attack posts are handed out, and, Jack Roemor and Brackett who doubles at midfield, lead a host of other attack aspirants...
...many a sentimental tear rolled down stubbled jowls into nickel beer last week in Chicago. The Hon. Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna announced he did not choose to run again for First Ward Alderman. Chicago historians hailed the passing of a lusty, gusty 50-year era; a time that began when Hinky Dink's great pal John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin was Alderman. They called him Hinky Dink, or The Hink, because he was so short...
Beautiful Corruption. On election days they voted as Hinky Dink wanted. In time he became a political power; inevitably he met and made a friend of Bathhouse John, then a rubber at the old Palmer House baths. The Bath was elected Alderman in 1892; five years later Hinky Dink followed him into the council as second Alderman. But a 1923 reorganization allowed only one Alderman per ward...
Hinky and John then made a deal: John could have the office, Hinky would be ward boss; John could make the speeches, Hinky could have the influence. This partnership worked beautifully. The ward had as corrupt voting practices as any in the U.S. Hinky Dink picked all the ballot watchers and judges. Al Capone's machine would vote for Hink's men; Hink would tell his counters to "count straight-and a little more" for Capone's favorites...
...Hinky Dink took over when Bathhouse John died. When The Hink leaves the city council next spring, his aged friend John Budinger will succeed him. But things are not the same: the old leaders are gone, the face of the ward is changing. There is a new subway; a general clean-up is forcing the bums out of the ward. It is getting respectable, if not high-toned. Said the Chicago Daily News: "Chicago will be different without The Hink. It is no longer as young, as lusty, as dynamic as it was when The Hink was in his prime...