Word: funk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also be said that you can talk business into a blue funk. And that is what many newspapers seem to be trying...
...Private Funk, pacifist at heart in the heart of a nation under arms, elects to be a stretcher-bearer and as such is sent to the Western Front. But he is physically unable to do the work, is transferred to the dressing station behind the lines. Here he makes himself indispensable, soon is more useful than the surgeon. A writer in peacetime, he knows nothing of medicine, learns gradually how little can be done to help the wounded, even before the medical supplies begin to give out. before they have to use paper bandages, the same dressings over and over...
...Funk & Wagnall's Standard Dictionary meanings: ". . . (Slang.) A close or hard bargainer; a moneylender or usurer; an opprobrious...
...Digest office, however, would not reveal whether Robert J. Cuddihy. able, amiable, Roman Catholic vice president of Funk & Wagnalls, actual publisher of the Digest and sponsor for its poll, was personally...
...Wilfred John Funk, who whiles away his time writing jingles (TIME, Feb. 10). sometimes pretends to be a drinking man. A Funk jingle published last week...