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Cooke

[kook]

noun

  1. (Alfred) Alistair, 1908–2004, English journalist and broadcaster.

  2. Coke, Sir Edward.

  3. Jay, 1821–1905, U.S. financier.

  4. Terence (James), Cardinal, 1921–83, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: archbishop of New York 1968–83.



Cooke

noun

  1. Norman , real name Quentin Cooke , also known as Fatboy Slim. born 1963, British disc jockey, pop musician, and record producer; hit records include You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998) and "Praise You" (2001)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Miles Caton, actor: The first time I got the script, they prompted it as a 19-year-old sharecropper who’s a musician, and he would have been Sam Cooke if it was 20 years later.

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“Wealth-manager advice delves deeply into estate taxes, income taxes, generational planning/trusts, and charitable planning in addition to traditional investment planning,” says the Cooke Financial Group.

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In her review, the Observer's Rachel Cooke also referenced the revered Modernist author, describing Garner's collection as "the greatest, richest journals by a writer since Virginia Woolf's".

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Villalobos filmed Figueroa Street from a driver’s perspective, observing the street’s nighttime activity and tracing the energy that surrounds the place where soul singer Sam Cooke was shot.

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There is one dance interlude, but it’s at the end, and it’s over a Sam Cooke gospel tune.

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