Word: schnook
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...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...
Alan Young decided when he was 14 that he would be an actor and that his specialty would be the role of the likable dolt-a type that show business calls a "schnook" (rhymes with took). Competing with such notable professional chumps as Dennis Day, Ozzie Nelson and Dagwood (Arthur Lake), Young was only a passable schnook in his 1944-47 radio show, a fair-to-medium specimen in his movie roles (Margie, Chicken Every Sunday, Mr. Belvedere Goes to College). But in his carefully planned opening TV show for Esso Standard Oil Co., aired in the East last week...
...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...