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...Funk & Wagnall's Standard Dictionary meanings: ". . . (Slang.) A close or hard bargainer; a moneylender or usurer; an opprobrious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opprobriousness Deleted | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...publicity bureau of Funk & Wagnalls, publishers of the Literary Digest, let it be known that Dr. Woods was not only the son of a Methodist minister but an ardent personal Dry, a fact to which his friends in New York and Washington who had vainly offered him drinks readily attested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Poll | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Funk & Wagnalls also reminded people that the firm was long known as a "Prohibition house," that the late Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk founded "Prohibition Park" as an amusement centre on Staten Island. His son Wilfred John Funk, now inactive president of the company, is also a personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Poll | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Poll | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Poll | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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