Word: dinking
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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...
They were full of calculated benevolence. At Hinky Dink's saloon, the Workingmen's Exchange, beer was served in two-handled, 28-oz. mugs, and no hungry man was ever turned away from the lavish free lunch. The pair staged an annual First Ward ball which was attended by thousands of whores, pickpockets, hopheads, politicians and pimps. Their guests drank free champagne, brawled, engaged in orgiastic dancing, and cheered as Bathhouse John led the Grand March wearing a bright green cutaway, mauve vest, lavender pants and a high silk...
...Hinky Dink kept sober (his wife was a temperance worker), honored his word, and ruled with an iron hand. He made and unmade mayors and chiefs of police. Year after year he used his power brazenly, openly, ruthlessly to squeeze bribes from all who sought municipal favor...
...Payoff: Twelve Cigars. Times changed. Prohibition put Hinky Dink out of his saloon; Al Capone stole much of his power. Bathhouse John died in 1938, old and broke. But Hinky Dink stayed on at his old stand in the First Ward. Then, in 1943, diabetes and old age beat him down. He retired to a hotel room. His fortune (estimated at $2,000,000) afforded him but little comfort beyond the dozen $1 cigars he smoked every day. He died attended only by a male nurse...
...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...