Word: tink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thirty-seven of them, who had gone on to become professors themselves, had written a book in his honor and handed it to him at a dinner. Appropriately, the book was a collection of their own scholarly essays on Tinker's Century. The title, affectionately lifted from Tink's old course, was The Age of Johnson (Yale University Press...
...master. He railed against the tardy ones, was ruthless in dealing with lazy thinkers and sloppy writers. Yet after classes, students knew they would find friendly counsel in his rooms. There hundreds have gone-from Sinclair Lewis to Yale's President Charles Seymour ("At last a president," sighed Tink when Seymour was named in 1937, "that I can call by his first name...
These days, Tink no longer teaches, but refuses to think of himself as retired. He still keeps his old routine, living in his apartment at Yale's Davenport College, surrounded by his books and Boswelliana. He is oddly chipper on foggy days ("It reminds me of London"), but whatever the weather, he still takes his daily stroll across the campus, stopping to chat with the Davenport gatekeeper, and then going on to Yale's great Sterling Memorial Library where he has been keeper of rare books ever since 1931. One of his objects, already far advanced under Tink...
Three prime reactionaries, three prime Roosevelt-haters, three prime pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists are the Messrs. Tink ham, Rich and Fish: George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, Robert Fleming Rich of Pennsylvania, Hamilton Fish of New York...
...When "Tink" moves back to his native Boston, vans will cart away his horrific stuffed heads of lions, tigers, leopards-trophies of campaigns he won while hunting in Burma, India, Africa. A rich man, "Tink" always paid the election bills, never deigned to campaign, let his friends do the electioneering. But no more. "Tink" says that old age prompts him to retire after 28 years, admits another factor is a Congressional reapportionment in his Massachusetts district breaking up his solid block of adherents in both parties...