Do You Know
(1) Who this is? (2) The nickname for the Bank of England? (3) On what tree the pineapple grows? (4) What European statesman was called “The Tiger”?
Answers to yesterday’s questions: (1) The Marquis de la Falaise, who married the film actress Gloria Swanson. (2) The chess champions prior to Cupablanca were P. Morphy (1857), an American. W Steinitz (1866), an Austrian. Dr. E. Lasker (1894), a German, whom Capablanea defeated in 1921. (3) A cheap kind of lace used to be solff at the Fair of St. Andry. The name became “tawdry” through careless pronunciation and was applied to any cheap finery. (4) A “two gallon lid” used to be American slang for a top hat. It now generally means a cowboy's sombrero.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 6 December 1927, Page 4
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127Do You Know Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 6 December 1927, Page 4
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