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55 · Gately Commits a Robbery
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Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland
Endnote 12a
"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.
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élan
enthusiastic vigor or liveliness
Revere Holding
a jail, obviously -- probably the jail for Revere, Mass., just south of Boston
P.D.
public defender
Endnote 13
Quo Vadis
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See here. Also a novel and film by that name were made.
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dictum
a maxim or saying
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Marblehead
A town in Essex County, Mass., home to a yachting resort. It's about 15 miles northeast of the city on the water.
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Endnote 17
datum
piece of information
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International Affairs and Interdependent Affairs
The first magazine is real; the second is not.
teak chiffonier
a piece of furniture, one of which you can see here
Berkshires
the westernmost portion of Massachusetts, a popular vacation spot
van Dyke
a goatee
apocopes
losses of syllables from words, particularly unstressed vowels
Café au Lait
half coffee and half milk in a large cup, as drunk in France
gangrenously tight
I.e., so tight as to cause gangrene, i.e., death of tissue due to lack of blood
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grippe
flu
pre-British-takeover Québecois
The British took over Quebec on September 8, 1760.
grackles
passernine birds native to North America
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Endnote 19
French: A person of terrible importance
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intercostal
pertaining to the ribs or the muscles around them
Montreal Tulip Fest
The Canadian Tulip Festival actually takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, which border each other.
Guillaume DuPlessis
A man by this name was one of the first French Calvinist settlers on the island of St. Kitts in the 17th century.
250 clicks due east
Clicks are kilometers. Two hundred fifty km is about 155 miles.
lividity
the change of color in skin brought on by livor mortis, an after-death phenomenon when blood settles in the body at low points of gravity
comme-il-faut
French: As is necessary
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