Speaking of Annie Oakley:
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Annie Oakley was involved in a long-running feud with a prominent newspaperman of her day. Who was it?
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Why was she feuding with him?
I’ll be damned. Thanks - I didn’t know that.
Heh. That was in the other thread. 
nit, nit, nit.
These two questions are US history, though - not world.
- I’ll guess… William Randolph Hearst.
- He went out of his way to print unflattering pictures of her.
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Yes.
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No. I really don’t think you’re going to get this by guessing.
- Skedaddle?
- dancing
- mule
When a horseman passes,
the soldiers have a rule,
to cry out at their loudest,
“Mister, here’s your mule!”
---- from Goober Peas
- No.
- Right! Bonus points for the “Goober Peas” reference.
Enterprise is right about “skedaddle,” another word that lingers as a semi-anachronism.
OtakuLoki, I like guessing!
- Hearst said Oakley wore army boots?
- He put chewing gum in her gunsights?
- He insisted on reeling off dirty limericks about her?
- He said Ethel Merman would be much prettier than her?
- He replaced her bullets with suppositories?
Which would raise the question of whether he replaced someone’s suppositories with her bullets…
Ow.
No, as entertaining as all those suggestions are, none match the actual circumstances that surrounded the Heart-Oakley feud.
- Hearst published a claim that Oakley was an opiate addict who had been arrested for petty theft.
She ultimately sued him and over twenty newspapers that published the story afterwards.
That’s exactly right, Governor Quinn.
The way I recall it, he published a series of interviews with a woman who shared Oakley’s name, and presented them as being with the famous shooter.
Oakley was infuriated. And proceeded to sue Hearst, and each individual paper which ran the stories for libel. She ended up spending a large portion of her fortune pursuing what she saw as the cleansing of her good name, and won every suit but one. (The numbers I recall were 35 newspapers sued, and 34 suits won.) Even with unheard of judgements for libel, for the day, she still lost money on the proposition, and Hearst’s papers made hay out of the suits, themselves.
Never heard about that. Why did she lose the single case?
Honestly, I have no idea what specifically caused her to lose that one case, but given the standard of proof required for a libel suit, I’m not surprised. IANAL, but my understanding is that to win a libel suit one has to prove that the defendant was knowingly publishing falsehoods. So, Hearst had at least one ready-made defense: the woman he did interview was Annie Oakley, just not the famous one. I suspect that there were other arguments used as well. And, well, given what I’ve heard of Hearst, I wouldn’t put it past him to bribe a judge.
On Capitol Hill.
- What was Sen. John Tower (R-Texas) once unflatteringly named by female Congressional staffers?
- The Congressional newspaper (not the Record) is called this.
- Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) famously likened the Internet to ______.
- U2 frontman Bono formed an unlikely partnership with this conservative legislator.
- Name the massive painting which covers the interior of the Capitol dome, over the Rotunda.
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Is it still the Globe?
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A series of tubes.
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Jesse Helms.
- Why did Theodore Roosevelt come to rue Valentine’s Day?
- Because his wife and mother both died on Valentine’s Day – and in the same year, too.
It was this that led him to travel out West for a spell.
Correct, I am surprised our learned OPer didn’t ask that question. I kinda thought he was waiting until yesterday to ask it.
American history & the Arts
846. This famous Thomas Hart Benton painting shows this famous American doing this.
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George Caleb Bingham painted humorous scenes from early American frontier life, name one of the paintings.
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The Star Spangled Banner is sung to the melody of this earlier song.
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Julia Ward Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic is sung to the melody of this tune.
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Who starred in Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre on that fateful night?