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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...
...couldn't smell or touch...
...Matchmaker (by Thornton Wilder) by another name did not smell anything like so sweet. As The Merchant of Yonkers-a rewrite of a century-old Viennese farce-it was pretty much of a flop when produced on Broadway in 1938. But as further rewritten by Playwright Wilder and lustily staged by Tyrone Guthrie, what once merely clattered now careens, what formerly sputtered now explodes...
Shredded bits of carpeting, an acrid smell around the wreckage -like burned-out fireworks -and a greyish residue on some of the bits of the plane all indicated high explosives. Technicians from the FBI and the Douglas Aircraft Co. were summoned, and a crew of 40 men was dispatched to pick up every fragment of the plane, and cart it all back to Denver. There, in a warehouse near the airport, the experts began the painstaking job of fitting the fragments together again...
...traveling and staying put is just one of the paradoxes of Muir's life, which has seen the boy who quit school at the age of 14 eventually become a distinguished professor. Thinking back to his early years, Muir recalls: "I disliked school from the start... with its smell of ink, chalk, slate, corduroy, and varnish. The classroom made me feel as if my head were stuffed with hot cotton-wool...