An Evening This Week - Answers to No. 7

ANSWERS to No. 7

1) The Junior League.

2) In a railway car.

3) Van Sweringen brothers. (Oris P. & Mantis J.)

4) Mayo brothers (Charles & William.)

5) Lascelles. (Husband of Princess Mary.)

6) Marx brothers. (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo.)

7) Smith Brothers. (Trade & Mark.)

8) Chamberlain brothers. (Austen, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Neville, Minister of Health. They are sons of the late Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, right hand man to potent Mr. Gladstone.)

9) Curtis. (Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas. His great grandmother was the daughter of White Plume, chief of the Kaw tribe.)

10) Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (He married Addie Wolff, daughter of Abraham Wolff, Kuhn, Loeb partner.)

11) Knight Commander of the Bath. (There is also a Hearst Colyumist styled K. C. B.--Kenneth Carrol Beaton--but this is no title.)

12) Davis. (James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor. Because he was born in Wales.)

13) Verman. (He was tongue-tied. Once he shouted put: "Hi haw him hoe humhin hin hair!" meaning: "I saw him throw something in there!" There was also Sherman. But Sherman was not as prominent as his brothers, Herman & Verman.)

14) Min. (Minerva.)

15) Morrow. (Dwight W. Morrow--looked upon by some as a likely Secretary of the Treasury should Mr. Mellon quit. At Amherst, in 1895, so runs the fable, everyone but one voted Morrow "most likely to succeed." Morrow voted Coolidge "most likely to succeed.")

16) LaSalle. (Named after Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle who explored savage North America as did that other French explorer--Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, founder of Detroit.)

17) The goal posts will be moved back ten yards from the goal line. (This to prevent players from being bashed against the poles. Also to make goal kicking more difficult.)

18) Pig. (A pig without an eye is necessarily blind.)

19) A noisy noise annoys an oyster.

20) King of Spain. (Alfonso XIII. He was born in 1886, six months after his father died.)

21) Abercrombie. (Manhattan sporting goods house.)

22) Wagnalls. (Publishers of the Dictionary, the Literary Digest and of the now defunct International Book Review.)

23) Weber. (Weber & Fields, famed comedians.)

24) Damrosch. (Walter Damrosch, whose father Leopold led the New York Symphony before him. Walter got the job when he was 23.)

25) The bugler's. (Cf. Irving Berlin's famed Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning.)