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...middle of the last century, the Reverend Mr. Jacob Abbott wrote a series of guide books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, likes to quote from a parody of the series called Rollo Visits Cambridge in which Rollo asks Uncle George, "what is a Dean?" and his sage relation answers: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman scated at a table playing solitaire, but he is also sort of a beadle, 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his services." Then...

Author: By George A. Lniper and Samuel B. Potter, S | Title: Sort of a Beadle | 9/19/1952 | See Source »

...Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik, a connoisseur of invective, promptly adopted snollygoster (mispronouncing it as snollygaster). It is, said Malik sententiously, "a difficult-to-trans-late English term" applicable to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, both of the U.S. presidential nominees-and Harry Truman. A familiar Russian phrase may be expanded to "bandits, warmongers, profiteers and snollygosters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Snollygosters | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...middle of the last century, the Reverend Mr. Jacob Abbott wrote a series of guide books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, likes to quote from a parody of the series called Rollo Visits Cambridge in which Rollo asks Uncle George, "what is a Dean?" and his sage relation answers: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman scated at a table playing solitaire, but he is also sort of a beadle, 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his services." Then...

Author: By George A. Lniper and Samuel B. Potter, S | Title: Sort of a Beadle | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Russia's Jacob Malik, not to be confused with Lebanon's good Charles Malik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Exit the Bad Malik | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...Chicagoans call Jacob M. Arvey both Jake and Jack. Arvey likes Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 25, 1952 | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

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