Word: snook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News-stand-buyer John Box casts unwarranted suspicion upon the exploit of honest Albert Snook. Let Mr. Box turn to p. 14 of TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, and read how Albert Snook won not "an antique" but "The Chess Game," a painting by John Singer Sargent, at a lottery for the benefit of lay patrons of the Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, in Manhattan. Art-patron-publisher "Lucky" Snook was first noted by TIME when he attended an Associated Press convention at Manhattan and emitted there on the appearance of President Coolidge "a wild and enthusiastic yell" which was heard...
...simple reason that it is an assignment by my government Prof., a young Ph. D. of about your calibre. I'm just wondering if you are chronic razzers. . . . We are still high and dry out here and are going to stay that way. BRUCE R. HINSON Norman, Okla. Snooks Sirs: I have noticed your interest in names which can be spelled forward and backward, and now I appeal to your fairness and squareness to print the truth about a name (my name) which can only be spelled forward, but is none the less not always appreciated at its true...
...name-drawing began, patrons from many a state stood tensely by to learn their luck. Out came the first name: Albert Snook, of Aurora, Ill., publisher of The Aurora Beacon-News. Without hesitation, Mr. Snook marched to John Singer Sargent's canvas, The Chess Game, and claimed...
...month ago, one A. M. Snook, of the Aurora (Ill.) Beacon-News, journeyed to Manhattan to the annual meeting of the Associated Press, heard President Coolidge make a speech (TIME, April 28). Last week it became known that back in Aurora, Mrs. Snook had listened in by radio, had heard above the applause which greeted the President, a "wild and enthusiastic yell." Forewarned, she recognized Mr. Snook's "holler," "knew that he was all right...