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A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF HERBERT HOOVER |
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WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS |
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6 elements make up 99% of a cell's weight: carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur & these familiar 2 |
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This 2002 flick earned Oscar nominations for Queen Latifah, Renee Zellweger & Catherine Zeta-Jones |
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Her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" ends, "And say simply very simply with hope good morning" |
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In 1928 Hoover won 444-87 in the Electoral College over Al Smith & his "Strange Interlude" opened in New York |
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This "Scourge of God" despot is referred to in the "Volsunga Saga" as Atli |
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Although it sounds like it has something to do with a Southern peanut, it really pertains to Pataki or Jeb |
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The synthesizers called ribosomes are about 50% protein &, as you might guess, 50% this substance |
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"Hello, Gorgeous!" was Barbra Streisand's first line in this musical, her first film |
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Her "Aurora Leigh" is "a poem in nine books" |
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In 1932 Hoover lost 472-59 in the Electoral College to FDR & the Cubs got swept by this team in the World Series |
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After an anti-Roman uprising in 40 B.C., this despot fled to Rome, where the Senate elected him King of Judea |
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Though it may sound like a laughing beer, it's really a hubbub, maybe in a pub, bub |
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Donald O'Connor "made 'em laugh" in one of this 1952 movie's most famous numbers |
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This lady from an old New England family wrote "A Lady", which says, "You are beautiful and faded, like an old opera tune" |
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Hoover was born in 1874, the year this man began his second stint as Britain's Prime Minister |
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His attempt to escape Bucharest by helicopter failed in 1989, & after a tribunal he & his wife Elena were shot |
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Meaning to throw out of a window, this term gained fame after a 1618 incident in Prague where 2 officials were so thrown |
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By this process, water moves through cellular membranes to equalize pressure |
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In this musical Western, Clint Eastwood sings "I Still See Elisa" & "I Talk To The Trees" |
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This American poet titled her 1960 collection "To Bedlam and Part Way Back" |
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1929 wasn't so hot for Hoover but it was for architecture; this Disney hall designer was born on Feb. 28 |
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Crazed with grief when his mother died in 1827, this African warrior chief forbade the drinking of milk |
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Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was a demon's name & mentioned in "King Lear" |
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In 1967 Tommy Steele starred in back-to-back musicals: "The Happiest Millionaire" & this "monetary" one |
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Her best-known poem says, "I was much further out than you thought and not waving but drowning" |
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Hoover died in October 1964, 6 months after this famous American faded away |
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This advisor to Ivan the Terrible was elected Czar after the death of the Czarevich Fyodor |
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Sigmund knows that this is from the German for "damage" & "joy" & I'm getting a certain amount of it right now |
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