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Some of the rock and roll types approached burst spontaneously into the chorus of the song: "Dook, dook, dook, dookuv url url url." (The song, sung by Gene Chandler, is divided, fugue-like, into three overlapping voices, a "Dook, dook, dook" line, an "oooooh, oooooh, oooooh" line, and the story line, which goes something like "Wherever I go in this wide world there's nothing can stop the Duke of Earl...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: 'Duke of Earl' Mystifies College, Is No Puzzle for High Schoolers | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

Much of the Wanderers' strength lies in their superb kicker, John Dook. Dook made a goal and three penalty goals against the Crimson. One of the penalty goals was a tremendous kick of 50 yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Set for Rough Afternoon In Doubleheader | 5/8/1953 | See Source »

...king's daughter, strolling bold as brass into free Eire. "We want a navy snack," says they, marching into the Green Bay at Buncrana. "We want a typical navy snack, with plenty of steak and chips and don't say nothin' to anyone about the dook." Then off they go to the local for a pint apiece, to wet their whistle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Border Raid | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Last week my nine room mates and I offered Benny the Dook our broom closet, at Benny is still without a home. We regret to announce that our misguided respitality caused an international crists before the eagle (or inspecting) eye of Major Merriam...

Author: By S SGT. George avaklan, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 8/10/1943 | See Source »

...lipped David Paulding (Richard Greene) is a clean, upstanding, well-dressed boy with a veddy, veddy English accent and a brace of dimples he can switch on and off like headlights. His limpid life is complicated by a two-father complex. Father No. 1 (and sire) is Duke (pronounced Dook) Allen (Richard Dix), Stafford 1917, football, track, a brilliant writer who 20 years later is still winding up Chapter Four of his first novel. Father No. 2 is a famous lawyer (George Zucco) who married David's mother (Gladys George) after she left Duke for nonpayment of rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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