Answers To Peter Simple's Posers

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 17 (Supplement)

Answers To Peter Simple's Posers

5 (Questions on Serial Page.) 1. They I are all terms udect'iir modern. American; ; jargon;Menticulturalists study the mind, mostly, through hypnotism; morticians ale undertakers; socialitcs are people who move in high society; and newshawks are newspaper reporters.; ■ w 2. Approximately 1 81b v • 3. Charlotte, Emily and, Anne* ■ ' 4 - 56. '> '' • \ *' s)' A system of economic self-sufii-t ciency. > 6. Scott ("The Lady of the Lake"), Tennyson ("Idylls of the King"), Longfellow ("Hiawatha"), Coleridge ("The r Ancient Mariner"),-Keats ("Endymion"). I '7. Linen for the table. _ x - —

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