THE CIVIL WAR
On March 9, 1862, this ship had turret troubles--either it was hard to turn or it wouldn't stop turning
the Monitor
"Tall and tan and young and lovely", she "goes walking and when she passes, each one she passes goes 'Aah'"
"The Girl From Ipanema"
On an automatic gear shift, you'll find it between reverse & drive
neutral
St. Jerome wrote "Never look" one of these horses "in the mouth"
a gift horse
Kipling called this regimental water-carrier "The finest man I knew"
Gunga Din
When the war broke out, she was a patent office clerk; she later became "The Angel of the Battlefield"
Clara Barton
A hit from this 1969 film begins "Everybody's talkin' at me, I don't hear a word they're sayin'"
Midnight Cowboy
This greasy substance obtained from wool is widely used in cosmetics
Lanolin
The name of this 3-letter month is synonymous with the prime of one's life
May
"The Road Not Taken" is the opening poem in his "Mountain Interval"
(Robert) Frost
It's said that southern ladies' silk dresses were used to build one of these launched by the Confederacy
a(n observation) balloon
In 1966 Bobby Darin sang, "If I were" this "and you were a lady, would you marry me anyway?"
a carpenter
In music it's a loud flourish of trumpets; in general, it's any loud, public display
a fanfare
Miss Manners says of eating grapefruit, "If you are not armed with a pointed" one of these "give up"
a spoon
Completes the Joyce Kilmer couplet "Poems are made by fools like me..."
"...but only God can make a tree"
Put on top of the U.S. Capitol during the war, Jefferson Davis had a hand in its design
the Statue of Freedom
This Elvis chart topper begins "We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out because I love you too much baby"
"Suspicious Minds"
It's the support under which a lever pivots
a fulcrum
In names of fragrances, it precedes lavender & leather
English
Richard Lovelace wrote, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars" this
a cage
Gen. McClellan was told by this new Secretary of War, "Now we two will save the country"
(Edwin) Stanton
"Why does the sun go on shinning? Why does the sea rush to shore? Don't they know it's" this
"The End Of The World"
It's the wide mouth of a river where its current meets the sea's tide
an estuary
The indigo bunting isn't a flag, it's one of these animals
a bird
The poems in her 1971 collection "Winter Trees" date from the last year of her life
(Sylvia) Plath