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 I'll kick you downstairs!" See Alice Through the Looking Glass.)

15) Augean stables. (He also captured the man-eating Mares of Diomedes and did many another difficult feat.)

16) Green.

17) A "good turn." (Example: Pick up a fat old lady's apple.)

18) Lewis Carroll.

19) Southeast. Here's a map to prove it:

20) Mohammed. (She was his daughter.)

21) Caillaux. (She shot him dead because of his paper's political attacks on her husband.)

22) Liver. (The bile is a sticky yellowish, or greenish fluid secreted by the liver.)

23) Horse. (Large, ponderous breed of horse that originated in France. Pulls water wagons, etc.)

24) Alienation of affections.

25) 40 years.