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| Though born in Philly, she achieved fame "Coming of Age in Samoa" |
Margaret Mead
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| Nat'l guardsmen fought demonstrators at Chicago convention which nominated this man for Pres. |
Hubert Humphrey
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| The music world's "Chairman of the Board" |
Frank Sinatra
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| Hybrid Yiddish word combining Hebrew for "luck", "mazal", & Germanic for "bad", "schlimm" |
schlemazel
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| Of Lady Macbeth's 165 words in her sleepwalking scene, all but 20 have this number of syllables |
one
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| Oxford-educated Cherokee Indian who was Daniel Boone's friend |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Mingo
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| "Mad" Revolutionary War officer, DC Comics claims Batman's alter ego is his descendant |
"Mad" Anthony Wayne
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| Their assassinations occurred 63 days apart in 1968 |
Robert Kennedy & Martin Luther King Jr.
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| "The Little Corporal" |
Napoleon
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| In the original it's a Neopolitan savory bun; our use of the word is pretty "shakey" |
pizza
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| Peter O'Toole's Macbeth was called a cross between Vincent Price & this "Baby Jane" star |
Bette Davis
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| Tho the Cisco Kid was his "gift" to TV fans, he's better remembered for "The Gift of the Magi" |
O. Henry
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| Besides designing & building "The Clermont", he invented devices for rope spinning & marble cutting |
Fulton
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| This 1968 film became last musical to win the Best Picture Oscar |
Oliver!
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| "The Great Profile" |
Barrymore
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| [Audio] Turkish for "fate" or "destiny", it's the name of B'way musical from which we get the following: |
(Alex: The music of course is Stranger in Paradise.)
kismet
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| The Queen Mother grew up there, Princess Margaret was born in it, & Macbeth was Thane of it |
(Joel: What is Cawdor?)
Glamis
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| On air 8 years, this Clint Walker western at times alternated weekly w/Bronco, Sugarfoot, & Shirley Temple |
Cheyenne
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| Algonquin wit who co-wrote the verbal feasts "Dinner at 8" & "The Man Who Came to Dinner" |
George S. Kaufman
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| 1968's "Prague Spring" didn't end in June but with this August event |
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
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| Baseball's "The Lip" |
Leo Durocher
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| French for "untying of a knot", it's the outcome of a plot |
denouement
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| "Macbeth"s 1st performance was in this palace, once home to Henry VIII , which caught fire in 1986 |
Hampton Court
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| Discoverer of oxygen, he breathed his last in Pennsylvania in 1804 |
Joseph Priestley
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| Former ambassador to Russia & Gov. of N.Y., he represented the U.S. at Vietnam peace talks |
Averell Harriman
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| "Slim", "Baby", or "Betty" |
Lauren Bacall
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| German for armed uprising or riot; Hitler's failed in 1923 |
putsch
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| Because it's a bad luck play, actors often avoid saying "Macbeth", using instead this geographical euphemism |
the Scottish play
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