20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES |
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Using real lawyers & witnesses, he was "tried" on television 23 years after his Nov. 24, 1963 death |
(Alex: Yes, he was guilty.)
Lee Harvey Oswald
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"And remember, never let those ruby slippers off your feet for a moment" |
Wizard of Oz
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Theodore Dreiser's novel about Carrie Meeber |
Sister Carrie
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According to Encyclopedia Britannica, its sounds can be described as peals, rolls, rumbles & claps |
thunder
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Command given by a submarine skipper when he wants to peek at what's on the surface |
up periscope
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Bertrand Russell lost his post at Cambridge & went to jail for expressing his opposition to this war |
(Doug: What was Vietnam?)
World War I
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"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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In "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", it's Maggie's relationship to the woman she calls "Sister Woman" |
sister-in-law
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The word "sky" is from an Old Norse word for these objects in the sky |
(Carol: What are stars?)
clouds
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In music it's the accented "thump" in a measure |
downbeat
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Technically prime minister, Antonio Salazar was actually the dictator of this country |
Portugal
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"Ah don' know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies" |
Gone with the Wind
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Hindley Earnshaw's little sister |
(Alex: The lady who loved Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, [*].)
Catherine
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Theophrastus wrote about 300 B.C. that a halo around the sun or moon is a portent of this |
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)
storm (rain)
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The north side of this short street has only 3 houses, one of which is residence of prime minister |
Downing Street
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It's said both of his salaries, as Archbishop & President of Cyprus, were given to charities |
Archbishop Makarios
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"I am big. It's the pictures that got small." |
(Alex: Spoken by Gloria Swanson, correct.)
Sunset Boulevard
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Her sisters were Regan & Goneril |
(Doug: Oh! Who was...uh, uh, Claudia?)
Cordelia
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Reports say that rickshaw pullers in Calcutta triple their rates during the season called this |
(Alex: [*] is right for 800, select. Oh, we're out of it again?) [Laughter] (Alex: That's twice this week I've been so involved in a match in which you were featured, Doug, that I forgot where we were.)
monsoon
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According to an old blues song, "Nobody knows you when you're" this |
Down and Out
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After coaching football at Connecticut's Wesleyan University, he went on to be President of Princeton |
Woodrow Wilson
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"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above" |
(Alex: Yes, Katharine Hepburn speaking to Humphrey Bogart, go.)
The African Queen
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Fort Dearborn |
(Doug: What is Dearborn?) (Eric: What is Detroit?)
Chicago
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"The Sisters" is the 1st tale in his short story collection, "Dubliners" |
James Joyce
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Standard average pressure at this "height" on earth is 1013 millibars |
sea level
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"Up" term for a king's downfall in a revolution, or a town's downfall in an earthquake |
upheaval
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