Word: snooted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American boy named Stephen Rutter will be excused from his private school on London's fashionable Eaton Square long enough to go to Buckingham Palace and obey, by approximation, an admonition of the late Mayor Big Bill Thompson of Chicago, to wit: "Punch King George in the snoot." The target will be George V's great grandson, Prince Charles, heir to the throne of Britain. Stephen, the son of a second secretary of the U.S. embassy, was picked last week to be a sparring partner for five-year-old Prince Charles...
...direct approach is usually best-meaning it's generally better than folksy, whimsical or cute stuff . . . Only a genuine old maestro can be whimsical or cute in print without making the average reader want to paste him in the snoot...
...herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the vallleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai." * A 1923 law passed by the Illinois legislature, when Chicago's Mayor William Hale Thompson was talking about "busting King George in the snoot," proclaimed that "American" and not "English" is the language of Illinois. * Regular sessions of the legislature are held in odd-numbered years...
Although Peking has kept its Communist snoot in the air and has left Britain dangling unrecognized for five months, Bevin still stubbornly defended the first hope: "We had large interests in China . . . The advice I gave to the cabinet was right and, in a few years' time, I think it will turn out to have been right...