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...editors and columnists. President Wilfred John Funk of Funk & Wagnalls, who writes light verse, publishes the Literary Digest and gets out a dictionary, last week tossed an exciting subject for controversy. He made up a list of the "ten modern Americans who have done most to keep American jargon alive...
From his list, Publisher Funk wisely omitted any definition of "jargon," gave no examples. If he meant the ten men who had coined the greatest number of slang words, his list would have been hard to defend. Astute commentators doubted whether any of the ten had ever coined any slang...
TIME refers to Detroit's radio priest, Father Coughlin as '''demagog." For this appellation the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary gives as definitions: "1. One who leads the populace by pandering to their prejudices and passions; an unprincipled politician. 2. Anciently, any popular leader or orator." Which definition was in the mind of modern up-to-the-minute TIME's usually accurate reportorial staff? I think an answer is due a subscriber and reader of long standing. I make no further comment here on this point lest I appear to be trying to put the answer...
Lowell House Dinner Dance. Dinner 6.30 to 7.45 o'clock. Dancing 8 to 2 o'clock. Music by Larry Funk's orchestra...
...Larry Funk and his Band of a Thousand Melodies will furnish the music for the Lowell House fall dance to be held on Saturday, November 11, after the Army football game. The dance will be informal; dinner will be served from 6.30 until 7.45 o'clock, and dancing will then continue until midnight...