Know-All

Annakin directed two of the segments, "Mr. Know-All" - and "The Verger."

Ken Annakin RIP: Master International Director 2009

Know-All, Mr. Tell-True, Mr. Hate - Lies, with my Lord Willbewill and his man, if need were.

The Holy War 2001

Dr. Boas gives the bibliography of "Dr. Know-All" in America in JAFL

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

This is only a short prosaic version of his rhyme "Old Man Know-All," found in our collection.

Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley

"Old Man Know-All," but I cannot recall it from my dim memory of the past, and others whom I have asked seem equally unable to do so, though they have once known it.

Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley

"Old Man Know-All," the first two lines of the last stanza came from all who gave the Rhyme.

Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley

In the three Filipino tales the total number of different strong men is only seven, -- Know-All, Blower,

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

If, however, you had had an argument with an antebellum Negro, had gotten the better of the argument, and he still felt confident that he was right, you probably would have heard him close his side of the debate with the words: "Well, 'Ole Man Know-All is Dead.'"

Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley

In letters addressed, for example, to "The Yiddisher-Bantu Expert," she wrote to her daughter in London, "my anonymous admirer, Yok … literally bombards me with his charming postcards addressed to der Yiddisher Know-All from Houghton and advising me to go stick my long Jewish nose in the Knesset and leave nice Christian parliaments to nice Christians."

news.newamericamedia.org 2009

There is a Mr. Busybody and a Mr. Know-All in every homeowners’ association.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011