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...language of personal insult flourishes. A zilch is a total loss, and so is a wimp, dimp, dipley nerdly, lizard, gink, barf, scuzz, skag, Jane, lunchbucket, or anyone whose mind is in the soil bank. At the University of North Carolina, last year's fink is this year's squid, cull, troll or nerd. The perennial rat fink is R.F. in Southern California and mouse fink or straight arrow (a combination pill and moral paragon) in the Harvard Yard. But though a tool in Florida is a dullard, a tool in the academic machinery of M.I.T. is merely...
...Gene Tunney had so magically inspired. They had some nice tunes by De Sylva, Brown and Henderson: You're the Cream in My Coffee, Don't Hold Everything. They had Betty Compton. They had Victor Moore. They had a part for Lahr - a punch-drunk fighter named Gink Schiner. What...
...World War I. At political odds with the chancellor, he left shortly before the end of his senior year, went to the Nashville Banner as sports editor under his fellow classman (now publisher) James Geddes Stahlman. He originated a popular, Will Rogerish column called I'm the Gink, branched into political writing with prodigious energy. Shortly after going to the Constitution he married a redheaded Nashville girl named Mary Elizabeth Leonard, who first saw him whaling a bully who had pushed a little fellow around in a Nashville hot-dog stand...
This gypsum gink or hillside hoopus?whatever its name might be?had soft black fur girdled with white, and white cuffs above its paws. Its front paws resembled human hands, Mr Miller said, except that the hairy black fingers reminded him of a tarantula. He could span the animal's neck with his thumb and forefinger, though it stood 30 inches high and weighed 20 pounds. The hind paws were sharply clawed, for climbing and scratching. A sharp-pointed face peered out from a fringe of mustache, like a monkey's. The nose was hard, smooth, rubbery. With its sharp...
...will give their sixth concert of the season. Two specially numbers will be given by Howard Elliott '22 and F. S. Stranahan, Jr., '21. The program, which consists of eleven numbers, is as follows: The Gypsy Prince, Kiesta Mandolin Club. Lullaby, Brahms Drinking Song, Composer Unknown Glee Club. Peter Gink, Cobb Banjo Club. Prayer of Thanksgiving, Netherland Folk-Song Glee Club. Specialty, Howard Elliott '22. Salterelle, Saint-Saens Glee Club. Norwegian Slumber Song, Gilder Mandolin Club. Specialty, F. S. Stranahan, Jr., '21. Serenade, Haydn Hunting Song, Bullard Glee Club. Rockin' the Boat, Frey Banjo Club. Old Medley, D. G. Field...