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Word: schnook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Poor Schnook | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Schnook means someone "easily persuaded." It probably comes from the German, schnucke, an undersized sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Poor Schnook | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Perfect Schnook | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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