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...Dictionary of the English Language- Samuel Johnson (1755): Noah Webster's American Dictionary (1828); Century Dictionary (1889-91): Webster's International (1890); Funk & Wagnalls' Standard (1893): Oxford English Dictionary (1884-1928): Wyld's Universal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lexicon | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

Grimly one of Herr Funk's assistants recalled that 6,000,000 Germans or one-sixth of all Germans who went to the polls voted Communist in November 1932. "This time," he exulted, "every Communist ballot will be thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

When apprehensive U. S., British and French correspondents gathered to hear this ukase read out last week, the whole Opposition Press of Prussia had already been suppressed. "We simply will not let the Communist and Marxist Press rise again!" cried Chief Government Press Officer Walther Funk. "We have definite evidence that all the money now being received by German Communists comes from France! What's that? No, I cannot divulge the details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...formal occasions. I found that a man of my height, and I am below the average, could not wear a top hat and sit in this car." House and Senate obligingly approved the Postmaster General's purchase of a topper-fitting automobile. In New York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language-dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody. Said he: "Beauty of sound is not enough. Mush is a word pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 19, 1932 | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...abhorred paper last week stop Repetition will be ruin stop Must receive reply to satisfaction, enclose cash stop Here have peered at honorable opposition, will fix destiny tomorrow stop Occult art have been employed by Digest Poll to predict income, but money few and distant stop In blue funk stop Rose, felt ill this morning, atmosphere too warm for long stay stop Tomorrow will wish for weather more coolish, proceed to Tigerville to eat curry with laymen stop Will arrive Cambridge midnight, son I Fling accompanies stop Must have $100, depend statement coming. (signed) H. Flung Huey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Odious Omission of Occult Opinions Obsesses Oriental | 10/14/1932 | See Source »

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