Word: snook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eagle Coach Snook Kelley indicated that two of his starters and a second line wing were ailing, but would probably play. High scoring center Bill Daley was weak after suffering an infected tooth, and Captain Joe Jangro said he would start at his right defense position in spite of a bruised arm. The other starters are goalie Jim Logue, who turned away 31 of 32 shots against Harvard in the opener, sophomore defenseman Tom Martin, and forwards Ron Walsh and Owen Hughes...
EZRA POUND: "Remove the layers and layers of cloacinal ranting, snook-cocking, pseudo-professorial jargon and double-talk from Pound's verse, and what remains? Longfellow's plump, soft, ill-at-ease grandnephew remains...
Timothy B. Cogan '56 and John B. Snook '49 have received fellowship awards from the Rockefeller Brothers Theological Fellowship Program, President Pusey announced yesterday...
Permit me to footnote your footnote on etymology of "schnook" schnook is probably a corruption of snook, a Middle English word for sniff, smell or search for. In Australia, a species of barracuda is a snok...
...unpredictable. The new member: Jean Cocteau, poet, painter, novelist, dancer, movie producer (Blood of a Poet), playwright, poseur and talker. Now 66 and still savoring his reputation as France's esthetic enfant terrible, Cocteau in times past has taken a gamin's delight in cocking a snook at the stuffy academicians. But things change, he explained, and "one wants to be oneself and yet the opposite." Like others before him, nonconformist Cocteau had succumbed to "the Green Fever," the desire to wear the gold-embroidered green uniform of the academy's Immortals...