Word: funk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vexed, a municipal school superintendent applied to Mr. Wells a term defined by Messrs. Funk and Wagnalls as meaning "an obstinate or stupid person; a blockhead...
...Funk-Brentano of Paris is credited with the discovery of new methods of "twilight sleep" (painless childbirth) differing from the scopolanium method now widely in use. They consist of injections of extract from the pituitary gland (a small oval body attached to the brain near the optic nerve) combined with progressive doses of chloroform. The woman retains a degree of consciousness and speech, but is not aware of pain. Eight hundred deliveries have been made by these methods at the Boucicault Hospital...
Henry Ford: "Funk and Wagnalls published a biography of me by Allen L. Benson, once Socialist candidate for President. The author credits me with stating to him in Sept., 1922, that there would be another World War; that the U. S. should ' get into it at the beginning and clean them all up'; that the sudden cessation of my anti-Jew campaign was due to my sensing 'too much anti-semitic feeling.' Mr. Benson also says that apropos of nothing I pointed to one of my men and said: There is the kind of man I would appoint Secretary...
...HAVEN, CONN., March 16. The Yale boxing team defeated the Queens College boxers, five bouts to one, this afternoon, Funk and Butterworth of Yale each scoring a knockout. Holmes, the Queens captain, won his bout scoring the only points for Queens...
...support in the much maligned New England conscience. Other states may continue in their sordid ruts interpreting and tampering with the old traditions to suit their shifting advantages, but not so Massachusetts. Webster's is dangerous; the edict has gone forth; let it be abolished, even tho this mean Funk and Wagnall's, phonetic spelling and a thoro reconstruction of the language thruout the land. What matters while the old stock lasts...