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...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...
...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...
...apathy of intelligent people to municipal affairs is always the chief foe of good city government. In consequence there is hardly an American city which has not a Tweed or a "Hinky-Dink" in its rogues' gallery, and a "Red Mike" in its mayor's chair. By arousing ciyic interest the National Municipal League has done much to overcome this evil...
...Editer why not cum right out and say it we guys dont cum to college to learn things but to have one h--l of a good timegosh yes lemme quotate Dink Stover in his book on College Life at Yale...