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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Liz Rosenthal - 07-18-2013 11:43 AM
Eva:
Before I attempt to answer - are you sure you don't mean a city of "northern efficiency and southern charm"? I think "efficiency" was probably associated with the North, and "charm" with the South - generally.
(07-18-2013 03:54 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Good morning! This is a four-in-one question:
Which description
1. a city of southern efficiency and northern charm
2. a city combining the meanness of the North with the barbarism of the South
was given by
a) whom
of
b) which place?
Of course you also may just guess one subquestion (e.g. 2b=Timbuktu).
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Wild Bill - 07-18-2013 03:13 PM
The quote is correct--made about WashingDc by JFK
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Liz Rosenthal - 07-18-2013 04:42 PM
(07-18-2013 03:13 PM)Wild Bill Wrote: The quote is correct--made about WashingDc by JFK
In that case, he was making a quip, which he was often known to do.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-18-2013 05:03 PM
Indeed correct, very good.
The other quote refers, of course, to another city you all know well. And was made by a person who had lived there as well as in Washington.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 07-18-2013 05:07 PM
Judging strictly as a Marylander, my first guess on the second quote would be the City of Baltimore. I have no idea who would have said it, however.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-18-2013 06:25 PM
Laurie, it's not Baltimore, it's much easier. It's a capital, too, but wasn't always.
The person lived in the White House during the CW.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 07-18-2013 07:08 PM
OK, I'll say Washington, D.C. by Mary Lincoln (or Hay or Nicolay)...
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-18-2013 07:43 PM
It was Hay, very good, but the city is a state capital.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 07-18-2013 07:48 PM
Springfield?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-18-2013 08:23 PM
Well done, Herr Beckert.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 07-18-2013 08:44 PM
Danke meine Heidelbeere!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-18-2013 09:12 PM
Wow, that's what I would call a creative term of endearment (or an unusual nickname).
(I hope Google refuses to translate words like "pumpkin".)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 07-18-2013 09:27 PM
Whew! I thought he had called you a bottle of beer...
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-18-2013 09:39 PM
No, a blueberry. HIS blueberry.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 07-19-2013 07:03 AM
It was supposed to be "Huckleberry". Dang it.