An Evening This Week: Answers to No. 1

1) Ass. (Donkey.)

2) Chrysler. (50's are supposed to go 50 miles per hr.; 60's, 60; 70's, 70; 80's, 80.)

3) Orchid. (Cost $6.)

4) Knut Hamsun. (He was Knud Pedersen to Chicago strap-hangers.)

5) Masefield,

6) Brother-and-sisterhood

7) Cut off their tails "(With a carving knife,)

8) Ignatz Mouse,

9) Gorgas,

10) Gloomy. ("Gloomy Gus" wore a long yellow coat. Hands in pockets. Never smile)

11) Poe. (She, one Virginia Clem, died childless at 24.)

12) "I should worry!"

13) Lawrence. (Commodore James Lawrence in Massachusetts Bay, June 1, 1813.)

14) Kick him downstairs. ("Be off, or...

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