Word: funks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those two eminently worthy old gentlemen Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk and Dr. Adam Willis Wagnalls could have returned to earth last week to check up on their Literary Digest, they might have suffered enough of a shock to send them kiting back to their Lutheran heaven. As recently as two weeks ago there would have been no shock at all. For, two weeks ago, they would have found the Digest bearing a tasteful painting of horses & riders taking a water-jump in a steeplechase. (Not quite so happy as one Digest cover of a year ago showing a tot peering...
Lowell House dining hall has been transformed to an uncharted shipwreck isle and will be the setting for the "Shipwreck Ball" which opens at 9.30 o'clock tonight. The committee has arranged for Larry Funk and his "Band of a Thousand Melodies" from the New York Palais d'Or to play for the dancing, while a girl who has been a member of several Broadway shows will sing with the band and help to make the shipwreck life more cheerful...
...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...
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...
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...