Word: schnook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schnooks & Schmos Sir: Your Feb. 6 article "Poor Schnook" is in poor taste and not worthy of your magazine...
...lingered long enough to pick up two books for cell reading: a cookbook, and How to Make Marriage Successful. When he got outside, he found that his father-in-law had gone off to the police station stylishly, in a cab. But, said Sol, "I'm a poor schnook.*I got into the radio...
...Schnook means someone "easily persuaded." It probably comes from the German, schnucke, an undersized sheep...
...Your article was disturbingly close to my own line of thinking on practically everything, and after a rereading I asked myself: Am I really such a schnook...
...final sketch, with Young taking his first ride in a commercial airliner, gave) him a chance to show off in his most colorful schnook form. Seating himself next to Actor Joseph Kearns, a serious-minded businessman trying to do some paper work, Young quickly drove Kearns to the verge of insanity through a combination of nervousness and nosiness. Told by the stewardess to fasten his belt, Young first fastened his own trousers belt, then got tangled with Kearns's safety belt. A few moments later, eavesdropping as Kearns sweated over his expense account, Young asked indignantly: "How could...