This agency began protecting the president after the McKinley assassination in 1901
The Secret Service
A cookbook is associated with chefs, but the term "cook the books" is associated with this profession
Accountancy
On January 31 the U.S. formally recognized Transjordan & this country
Israel
A scale that's played rapidly, or what you don't want to get in your pantyhose
A run
May, North, greased
Poles
This presidential retreat is perched on the highest point in Catoctin Mountain Park
Camp David
An etymologist studies the history of these
words
There were about 40,000 horologists making these in the U.S.
clocks (watches)
Her “My Heart Will Go On” went on the Billboard charts in February 1998 & stayed on for another 20 weeks.
(Celine) Dion
Gold, hay, cat-scratch
Fevers
Which president served two non-consecutive terms?
Grover Cleveland
Louis Agassiz, Charles William Beebe & Charles Darwin are classified as these; Darwin was the Beagle's
Naturalists
The cornerstone for its headquarters was laid October 24, 1949
the United Nations
This woodwind is sometimes called a blackstick
Clarinet
Fish, detective, ghost
stories
This president gave a TV tour of the White House in 1952, long before Jackie Kennedy
Truman
From Late Latin for "shopkeeper", it's an old term for a druggist
Apothecary
2 women fined & jailed for their WWII broadcasts were Iva D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose, & Mildred Gillars, known as this
Axis Sally
Its tune may have come from a song with a similar title, "Britannia, The Pride Of The Ocean"
"Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean"
Beer, truck, rose
Gardens
His wife, nee Julia Dent, was the first presidential wife called "The First Lady of the Land"
Ulysses S. Grant
Cars are driven by chauffeurs & these are driven by mahouts
elephants
In February Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty was sentenced to life imprisonment in this country
Hungary
"Moritat" was the original German title of this song from "The Threepenny Opera"
"Mack The Knife"
Beach, gum, masked
Balls