Jonathan’s arrival from New Orleans
The Comic Almanac for 1836, Being Bissexile, or Leap Year. <…>The Captain shivered, all hands shok; I seized the cook’s bucket of scalding dish water…
Snooker Farm
The Thirty-fourth Division, 1915-1919, the story of its career from Ripon to the Rhine, by Lieut.-Colonel J. Shakespear. 1921 On the left of the 103rd…
Early American Jewry
The Jews of Pennsylvania and South. 1655-1790. By Jacob Rader Marcus <…> He had a line of news or a tidbit of gossip for almost…
Folk Lore
Notes and Queries. 16 December 1865 “Red within and red without,Four corners round about.”Ans. A brick.“All hair but the head.”Ans. A cow tic.“Four stiff standers,Four…
Mrs. Barnaby Allsop
The Independent. October 5, 1871 By Augusta Larned <…> Barnaby Allsop is immensely proud and fond of his wife. He has forgotten all about Snooker’s…
A la Carte
Terrace Restaurant, Hotel New Yorker. 1938. The Home of Boo Snooker. Hot or Cold. 50 cents.
Animal.
Slang and its analogues. Past and Present. A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three…
A proud day for a Snooker.
Some rambles of a sapper. By Brigr.-Genl. H. H. Austin, C.B. , C.M.G. , D.S.O. 1928 Mental ability was taken no stock of by the…
Statement of Prof. Marshall Goldman.
Amending the Export – Import Bank Act of 1945 with respect to credit to communist countries. Monday, July 23, 1979 <…> Nor is it fair…
I always thought “snooker” was a game.
The Tatler, Wednesday 04 September 1907 I always thought “snooker” was a game, but I now find it to be the Woolwich synonym for “freshman.”…
Statement of Michael J. Kellett.
Proposed forest service conservation easement purchase from the state of New Hampshire. 18 July 1990 Statement of Michael J. Kellett, Northeast Regional Director, Wilderness Society…
The Army and the Universities
A Student in Arms. By Donald Hankey. 1917 My first room I shared with three others. The walls were of whitewashed brick. The floor was…