A spring month & a type of root veggie
May Yam
This phrase means to refrain from evaluating a novel or anything else just from its appearance
don't judge a book by it's cover
Beginning in 1901 5 of these were given to those who "have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind"
Nobel Prize
There were a number of slang words for this weapon, including a convincer & a roscoe
a gun
In 1908 he rolled out the first car affordable for most Americans, the Model T
Henry Ford
An educator's task & dishonestly taking a test
Teach Cheat
I get it, I hear you, "I read you" these 2 ways
Read you loud and clear
This Scot believed a "man who dies rich dies disgraced" & devoted himself to philanthropy after selling his steel company
Andrew Carnegie
Pay off a debt with a $100 bill & you've parted with one of these letter-word hyphenations
a c-note
This future presidential assassin made his acting debut in an 1855 Baltimore staging of "Richard III"
John Wilkes Booth
A hypersensitive reaction to a substance & a place to exhibit artworks
Allergy Gallery
We're using every one of these, meaning all available methods
every trick in the book
Sierra Sam" was among the first of these mannequins used by engineers in 1949 to help improve car safety
Crash test dummies
The 1930s were a time of poverty, & dog soup meant a glass of this
water
In 1927 he made aviation history aboard a plane called the Spirit of St. Louis
Lindbergh
The act of betraying your nation & one who serves it as a state's representative
Treason Senator
An event that will be long remembered is "one for" these, like the ones published by Elias
In 1909 the wireless wonder invented by this Italian saved 1,500 lives as a ship rammed off Nantucket made a distress call
Gugliermo Marconi
In the 1930s a canary referred to a female one of these--Mildred Bailey, perhaps
a (jazz) singer
FBI headquarters is housed in a building named for this man who was director from 1924 to 1972
J. Edgar Hoover
One brightens your face & the other is dumped on you at the nickelodeon teen choice awards
Smile Slime
If you're "reading" this, you're making sure to be aware of all the many conditions of an agreement
the fine print
In 1963 Dr. Maurice Hilleman's daughter got this disease; he used a swab from her to create a vaccine for it, measles & rubella
the mumps
A convicted murderer might have to take the hotsquat, in this device
electric chair
After his first wife Miriam died in 1832, this religious leader wed as many as 56 more times
Brigham Young