Word: funking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SEEING GERMANY-E. M. Newman- Funk & Wagnails ($5). This is the first travel book about Germany written since the War. Later ones will have to go far to equal it. Differences between the German Republic and Germany of the Kaisers are noted wherever they occur; in 420 pages of text there are 300 original photographs; although covering practically all Germany, Author Newman finds space for anecdotes-personal, historical, legendary. Important conclusion: Germany is one country that says "Welcome" without demanding payment at her door...
...Rump," declares Mr. Dale, "doesn't mean 'a portion of the original whole.'" Turn to Funk and Wagnalls "Standard Dictionary": "rump ... 3) Figuratively, the last or poor end of anything; an inferior remnant, spec (R) the Rump Parliament...
...printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare to me You will not buy a hat Today-yon lie and know you lie!-I will not credit that! The signature was: "WILFRED J. FUNK...
Contributor Funk soon contributed again. His next piece to get into print was "A Defy" to all the poets from whom he was frank to steal phrases because they "steal more than a plenty from me." In anyone but a colyum conductor that last line might have aroused curiosity. But Colyumist Phillips, discreetly dense, let things go along and two weeks later published the following, again signed WILFRED J. FUNK: WALL STREET WAILS...
Ding, dong bell, Market gone to hell! Who put her there? Little Tommy Bear! Who'll geeva pull? Little Johnny Bull! What a naughty little pup To eat the paper profits up. Contributor Funk was obviously a man of substance, conscious of the stockmarket. His subsequent contributions would have revealed him, to any between-lines-reader, as: a fatalist; a hedonist conscious of women, tobacco, liquor; a bad golfer; a married man whose thoughts sometimes stray afield; a middle-aged married man whose thoughts always return homeward. Wilfred J. Funk dutifully summed himself up, in fact, in his opus...