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Cleopatra’s needle is the ball and claw foot: The world may one day produce better chair makers than Chippendale, but it will never produce finer chairs. Cleopatra’s needle – «Игла Клеопатры» (прозвище египетских обелисков, установленных в Лондоне, Париже и Нью-Йорке) The popular name for each of three Ancient Egyptian obelisks re-erected in London, Paris, and New York City during the nineteenth century. The London and New York ones are a pair, while the Paris one comes from a different original site, where its twin remains. Although the needles are genuine Ancient Egyptian obelisks, they are somewhat misnamed as they have no particular connection with Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and were already over a thousand years old in her Cleopatra’s Needle in Paris lifetime. The London “needle” at the Place de la Concorde is one such example and it was falsely named Cleopatra’s needle. The Paris “needle” was the first to be moved and reerected and the first to acquire the nickname. Clever Dick (Am) – самоуверенный всезнайка; наглец, нахал, хлыщ (see Smart Alec, p. 152) Coal-oil Johnny (Am sl) – мот, транжира John Washington Steele (1843–1920), also known as Coal Oil Johnny, was one of the first oil millionaires acquiring their wealth from the oil discovered in Pennsylvania in the mid-19th century. In 1864, soon after wealth came to him through inheritance from the McClintocks, his foster or adoptive family, the orphan John Steele left the farm and began a lavish and picturesque life, rapidly spending his way through his fortune. He was often 38