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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8625458" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Notes and Queries was a journal where (for a long time) you could send in a question and folks would crank out answers about literature and history .Now we don't need that quite as much with google... but sometimes doing the google doesn't pull up an answer.So, trying it here.&nbsp; If you have a literary or historical question that you can't find the answer for, plop it in somewhere in all caps.&nbsp; When it looks like it's answered, go back and put and update in your original post with the answer (again in all caps).This format might be a train wreck, but who can tell.-----------------------------------------------------Update: Question 1 Looks like it's answered - &quot;chief god of&nbsp; Pop&quot; is likely the head prefect at Eton.I'm reading a Ngaio Marsh book from 1935 - NZ writer, detective story set near London about that time - and I have no idea what the phrase below is, and Google failed me. Thanks for any help!The scene is a coroner's inquest, and the friend is an inspector from Scotland Yard testifying.&quot;Nigel watched his friend, and experienced something of the sensation that visited him as a small boy, when the chief god of Pop walked on to a dais and grasped the hand of Royalty. Alleyn described the revolver, and the cartridges—.455.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 8625458, member: 6701124"] Notes and Queries was a journal where (for a long time) you could send in a question and folks would crank out answers about literature and history . Now we don't need that quite as much with google... but sometimes doing the google doesn't pull up an answer. So, trying it here. If you have a literary or historical question that you can't find the answer for, plop it in somewhere in all caps. When it looks like it's answered, go back and put and update in your original post with the answer (again in all caps). This format might be a train wreck, but who can tell. ----------------------------------------------------- [I]Update:[/I][B] Question 1 Looks like it's answered - "chief god of Pop" is likely the head prefect at Eton.[/B] I'm reading a Ngaio Marsh book from 1935 - NZ writer, detective story set near London about that time - and I have no idea what the phrase below is, and Google failed me. Thanks for any help! The scene is a coroner's inquest, and the friend is an inspector from Scotland Yard testifying. "Nigel watched his friend, and experienced something of the sensation that visited him as a small boy, when the [B]chief god of Pop[/B] walked on to a dais and grasped the hand of Royalty. Alleyn described the revolver, and the cartridges—.455." [/QUOTE]

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