Word: poobah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Penn 6082-0 Cornell 44-4 Army 28-21 Navy 35-10 6-2 10-2 .857 GEOFF SIMON Staff Writer William & Mary 21-7 Brown 25-10 Penn 38-13 Cornell 17-16 Army 23-6 Navy 27-9 5-3 9-3 .750 PATRICK SORRENTO Grand Poobah Guest Selector Harvard 14-13 Brown 34-7 Penn 37-10 Cornell 21-7 Yale 20-14 Navy 31-14 BRIAN M. BYRNE Luck of the Irish Guest Selector William & Mary 21-20 Brown 24-7 Penn 49-0 Cornell 13-3 Army 38-0 Navy...
What might, in the end, decide this race is something as subjective and unpredictable as personality. After all, experts are quick to point out, the United States Senate is a small and private club--and members will want a Grand Poobah with whom they feel personally comfortable reading the minutes and collecting the dues...
...purpose, but bases its existence on that very fact. Maya Williams '84 established the Fluff Club "for people who just want to stuff their resumes." The only requirement for admission in the Fluff Club is to think of a high-sounding title for yourself; Williams--the Grand Poobah of the Fluff Club--must approve the titles. Williams admits that it "probably won't get people far. Once you tell people your title, they begin to doubt...
...Grand Poobah has accepted about 10 other certified fluff cases into her club, including The Wise and Far Seeing Vizier, and The Most High Mufti...
...dive," as in a bad or dangerous restaurant or bar, and "hyper." Occasional usage notes do slip into an unpleasant pedantic style: "Careful writers use dived rather than dove in the past tense." But even less frequent notes on the origin or phrases turn up interesting information; the term "poobah," for example, a person who holds many offices at once, comes from a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado...