FAMILIAR PHRASES
LITERARY LOCALES
FABRICS
THE 20th CENTURY
NUMBERS
200
'It's said that this implement "is mightier than the sword"'
the pen
200
'A barbecue takes place at Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes family plantation, in Chapter VI of this novel'
Gone With the Wind
200
'Open mesh fabric style used in stockings & on trawlers'
fishnet
200
'Nickname shared by baseball great Jay Dean & jazz great John Gillespie'
Dizzy
200
'States in present-day New England'
6
400
'It's what you're actually doing if you're just out of school & "pounding the pavement"'
looking for work
400
'(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) This J.D. Salinger hero reminisces about seeing the Haida canoe on childhood field trips to the American Museum of Natural History'
Holden Caulfield
400
'It's a fluffy type of pie, or a sheer, fluffy silk fabric for blouses'
chiffon
400
'In 1967, this Cuban revolutionary leader was captured in Bolivia and executed'
"Che" Guevara
400
'Total number of royal flushes that can be dealt out of one deck of 52 cards'
4
600
'In "A Psalm of Life", Longfellow tells of leaving these behind "on the sands of time"'
footprints
600
'In an Erich Maria Remarque novel, "the army report confined itself to a single sentence" --this, the book's title'
All Quiet on the Western Front
600
'Gregory Peck's title gray suit was made of this'
flannel
600
'This name given to the regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 reflects 2 others before it'
the Third Reich
600
'In the U.S., the difference between a million & a billion is this many zeros'
3
800
'Meaning "in trouble", the expression "in" this presumably refers to the briny liquid it's made in'
a pickle
800
'African-American writer Chester Himes exploded with "A Rage in" this section of Manhattan'
Harlem
800
'Panne, cut & crushed are types of this thick pile fabric'
velvet
800
'Ngo Dinh Diem's P.R. people coined this term for the band of guerillas that fought South Vietnam'
the Viet Cong
800
'JFK was this number in presidential sequence, also the minimum age to become president'
35
1000
'Meaning "a greater return for your investment", it reportedly came from military expenditures in the 1950s'
more bang for your buck
1000
'John Steinbeck describes this title fish-processing area in Monterey, Ca. as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise"'
Cannery Row
1000
'Pashmina is a fashionable type of this luxurious fabric made from the hair of a wild goat native to India & Tibet'
cashmere
1000
'Charter 77 was smuggled out of this country in 1977 & published in Western newspapers'
Czechoslovakia
1000
'Syllables in a line of standard iambic pentameter'
10
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