Quiz style grab bag questions and clues
A collection of trivia prompts asking for a best seller heroine's name a child star from Journey for Margaret the capital of Nova Scotia the actor in Mon sieur Beaucaire and the third largest US city plus a noted Saxony soprano and a New York born author with works on democracy poetry and prose.
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Margaret
Province
Nova Scotia
Saxony
Germany
Berlin
Royal Opera House of
Metropolitan Opera Company of
New York
United States
New York City
Knowledge of the World As Acquaintance with Infirmities
Dickens remarks that true worldly knowledge is merely an awareness of human infirmities, not mastery of facts or moral virtue. He frames experience as recognizing limits and flaws in people, rather than judging beyond them.
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Charles Dickens
Harvard President Charles William Eliot born in 1834
Chronology notes Harvard College president Charles William Eliot born on July 20 1834. The entry also records 1940 resignation of French premier Edouard Daladier and the formation of Paul Reynaud’s new cabinet to prosecute World War II.
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Charles William Eliot
Harvard College
Edouard Daladier
Paul Reynaud
Birthday List Honors Notable Figures
The birthday list highlights Laurits Melchior an opera tenor Michael Redgrave an actor and Vin cent Richards a former tennis star.
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Laurits Melchior
Michael Redgrave
Vincent Richards
Change of Diet and Fluids Aid Constipation Treatment
Physicians emphasize diet and fluids to tackle constipation, with laxatives reserved as a last resort. Dr Hudgins studied 90 patients 16 to 59, mostly 20 to 40, confirming no organic cause and teaching lifelong regimens, including dilator use after breakfast under medical supervision.
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A. P. Hudgins
Prudent defined and noted from old French origin
By Lilian Campbell Central Press Writer a column lists books including The Private Life of Helen of Troy The Enchanted Garden The Delight of Great Books Tristan and Isolde Solomon My Son Influence of Women and Its Cure The President's Mystery Story The Baker's Wife and notes a home base in New York. The term prudent is defined from Old French and Latin roots Providens.
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Helen of Troy
New York
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The text speaks of personal leadership and parental guidance shaping a child into an original and clever person, reflecting on influences and responsibilities without reporting a concrete event or person.
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
A concise note on Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, presenting the novel in a brief literary card style. It highlights the suspenseful, gothic tale of a second wife haunted by a once glamorous estate and the memory of its first mistress.
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Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Extra Deck for Samba by Oswald Jacoby
Samba uses three ordinary 52 card decks plus six jokers totaling 162 cards. The deal is 15 cards per hand, the goal of 10 000 points to win a game, and minimum meld counts mirror Canasta with a table of required points. Draws from stock occur two at a time, with special rules for red threes and stock exhaustion.
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Oswald Jacoby
NEA
Fii
John R. Crawford
Mr. Crawford
Lee
Canasta
Peaceful picket near Royal Cotton Mills under court ban
Cotton mill strikers at Royal Cotton Mills in Wake Forest remained peaceful under a temporary court order issued by Judge Harris in Raleigh. Police and sheriff supported the ban limiting pickets to ten at the gate and keeping others off mill property as a Wake Superior Court date on March 26 set to decide if the ban becomes permanent.
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Wake Forest
Royal Cotton Mills
Clyde Whitman
U Ted
Iman
Wake County
Robert Pleasants
Ther
W. Co. Harris
Raleigh
Textile
CIO
Wae Hee
Wake Superior Court
The Matron Pattern No 8678 by Sue Burnett
Advertisement notes a sewing pattern No 8678 for a mature-figure afternoon dress with eyelet yoke and scalloped front trim. Details include sizes 36 to 52, fabric yardage, mailing cost, and address for ordering from Sue Burnett at High Point Enterprise. Mentions Spring Fashion issue with 48 pages of styles and fabric news.
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Sue Burnett
High Point Enterprise
Americas
New York
Florists Exempted From Price Ceiling Probe
Senator Cain says the floral industry will be exempted from price controls by week’s end. He cites Office of Price Stabilization information. OPS economist L C Lee had recommended the exemption but could not forecast timing. Flower prices were not controlled in World War II.
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Washington
Cain
R.-Wash
Office of Price Stabilization
L. C. Lee
OPS
Bookies By The Dozen In Los Angeles Run On Forms
Police chief William Parker ordered all convicted bookmakers to register at police headquarters. One thousand twenty seven have complied, but the department has exhausted registration forms and has ordered more from the printer.
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Los Angeles
William Parker
Parker
Y W C A Weekly Schedule For Clubs And Teens
The notice lists a series of meetings and programs across days. Activities include B and P Club Easter program at 6 15 and Bowling Night at Adams Club at 7 00. Junior youth events cover Bobby Soxer Y Teen 4 00 for 12th graders 4 15 for 12th grade and 10th and 11th grade Y Teen sessions with an 8 00 Jolly Y program on Spring Flowers.
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Adams Club
Bobby Soxer
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