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Pronounced one way, it's a motorized bike; pronounced another way, it means sulked or brooded |
[Elaine says it both ways.]
moped
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This Secretary of State's plan for economic assistance for Europe was 1st proposed at Harvard in 1947 |
(George) Marshall
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After the revolution of 1830, Delacroix painted her "Leading the People" |
Liberty
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Before achieving fame with "The House of Earth" trilogy, this author was a teacher in China |
Pearl Buck
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Called a "willy-willy" in Australia, it's name is from a West Indian word meaning "big wind" |
hurricanes
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In this 1971 James Bond film, the evil Blofeld was a diamond smuggler |
Diamonds are Forever
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This word can precede infinitive or personality |
split
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Robert Morris spent 3 years in debtor's prison after having been the chief financier of this war |
the American Revolution
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His nephew Gainsborough DuPont apprenticed with him |
Thomas Gainsborough
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According to the title of an Erma Bombeck best seller, this is "the Second Oldest Profession" |
motherhood
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"Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning; red sky at night is" this |
(sailor's) delight
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The title of this 1969 Hitchcock film refers to the code name of a ring of spies |
Topaz
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The breaking out of a rash on the skin, or the breaking out of lava on a volcano |
eruption
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Marines intervened in this country in 1927 to quell an uprising led by Gen. Augusto Cesar Sandino |
Nicaragua
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Degas installed one of these in his studio to study models getting in & out of it |
a bathtub
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This financial columnist's income tax guide has been published annually for the last 20 years |
Sylvia Porter
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To measure very low temperatures, this liquid, not mercury, is used in thermometers |
(Alison: What is nitrogen?)
alcohol
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It was the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" |
The Jewel of the Nile
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Word that means "citified", or the name taken by 8 Roman Catholic popes |
urban
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In 1905 Oklahoma Indians drafted a Constitution & tried to create a state named for this Cherokee |
Sequoyah
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Born in Crete, he moved from Italy to Spain during the Inquisition & it's reflected in his work |
El Greco
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This novelist collaborated with Geo. S. Kaufman on such plays as "Dinner at Eight" & "Stage Door" |
(Alison: Who is Dorothy Parker?)
Edna Ferber
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Squall lines, which are clusters of these, may stretch for hundreds of miles |
thunderstorms
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This 1948 film based on a Steinbeck story about a fisherman was shot in Mexico |
The Pearl
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It's defined as the act of shaving the head or the part of the head left bare by shaving |
tonsure
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After the Battle of Lake Erie, he sent the message, "We have met the enemy & they are ours" |
(Commodore) Perry
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When modern art was declared a "bourgeois luxury" in '23, this modern artist moved from Moscow to Paris |
Chagall
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This author's 1st million-selling book, "Every Night, Josephine!", was about her pet poodle |
Jacqueline Susann
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19th c. British commander who developed the scale of comparative wind forces named for him |
Sir Francis Beaufort
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In this film, when Cary Grant told Grace Kelly her necklace was imitation, she answered, "I'm not" |
To Catch a Thief
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