Word: snootful
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...elected Mayor of Chicago, with the aid of notorious Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin, on a Wet-Dry, White-Black, German-British platform. "Freedom for Ireland" got him his re-election in 1919. His third election (1927) he won on a promise to "punch King George's snoot...
...certain politicians are now doing. Big Bill is attempting to get a campaign platform out of the muddle. He is posing as a friend of the poor people against the inroads of the rich. He thinks it will be more effective than promising to biff King George on the snoot when he comes sailing down Lake Michigan toward Chicago...
...open staid, conservative news organs and find the nose of the King-Emperor repeatedly referred to as a "snoot" has given Londoners a delicious, titillating thrill of sacrilege these many months. The sacrilege was last week not only permissible but even laudable because the London press was exulting at the slap administered by Chicago voters, to their blatantly anti-British Mayor, William Hale Thompson (see p. 11). Since Mayor Thompson invented and began the game of calling the nose of George V a snoot, the dignified and conservative London Morning Post permitted itself to gloat, last week: "Evidently the self...
...COOLIDGE LAMS MR. THOMPSON ON THE SNOOT...
...paunch heaved like a vexed hippo's, his ham of a hand smote the air, his flabby face howled. Technically, he was no vaudeville actor; he was William Hale Thompson, candidate for Mayor of Chicago. Yelled he: "I wanta make the King of England keep his blasted snoot out of America. . . . This is the issue of the campaign [he draped the Stars and Stripes over his arm]. What was good enough for Washington is good enough for me. In the face of an issue such as this, the only issue for a true American, do you folks wanta...