Word: funk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...giving himself a higher rating than he gives to his contemporaries. Hence among best sellers not of a year but of a generation, the Boston Cooking School Cook Book and Emily Post's Etiquette rate close to the Bible. According to the modest estimate of its publishers, Funk & Wagnalls, since its first printing in 1922, Etiquette has sold "many more than 500,000 copies." Last week this 15-year-old youngster among best sellers came from the presses in its first completely revised edition, a new 860-page book on social ceremonial...
...Isaac Kauffman Funk and Dr. Adam Willis Wagnalls founded a weekly magazine called Literary Digest. In 1891 Dr. Albert Shaw founded a monthly magazine called Review of Reviews. Last week there was a wedding of the products of these venerable oldsters when Literary Digest was purchased by Review of Reviews for a reported...
...initial print order of 600,000 is planned for the combined magazine. Before Literary Digest mispredicted a Landonslide last year it alone had 685,537 circulation. The Digest will accept liquor advertising, something which Literary Digest never did. The firm of Funk & Wagnalls will continue in the book and dictionary publishing business under the management of Robert J. Cuddihy & sons, who own 60% of its stock. President Wilfred John Funk, son of Founder Dr. Funk and 40% stockholder, is reported to have an idea for a new magazine up his sleeve...
...this belief is conveyed to him. A positive assurance made by the person in whom he has faith will usually effect a cure. A typical instance of this is described in the little booklet, "What You Should Know About Eyes," forming one of the National Health Series published by Funk & Wagnalls...
...half biography of Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg. Hearst's New York Journal, selling the same encyclopedia, has in its volumes no word of Mr. Annenberg or his career, but it has got a nice item devoted to the word "neotrist,"† which they hired Lexicographer Charles Earle Funk to coin for them to describe a typical Journal reader. Mr. Annenberg's books haven't got that...