Word: crossword
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France even weather reports were suppressed, lest they give enemy airmen valuable information. Classified advertising and crossword puzzles were barred from French newspapers to keep spies from printing messages in code. The French press contained little except official bulletins, stirring appeals, atrocity stories and reports from the front that were obviously cooked...
...year everyone was fascinated by a new craze called crossword puzzles -Jack Dempsey was World's Heavyweight Champion, What Price Glory was playing on Broadway, and Ty Cobb was still in his prime - when Manager Miller Huggins of the New York Yankees, one fine day in June 1925, stepped up to a clumsy, rosy-cheeked rookie his scouts had picked up on the Columbia campus. "Gehrig," he muttered, "you take Wally Pipp's place at first base today." Last week, for the first time since that faraway day, the Yankees started a game without Lou Gehrig...
...15th Century cocky composers sometimes showed off by writing compositions that could be played backwards as well as forwards. These compositions, called cancrizans or "crab style" (because of a mistaken idea that crabs walk backwards) were as difficult to construct as crossword puzzles. But they were not worth listening...
Oldsters to whom the charade is the "prince of puzzles" will find this collection better than most since the nimble wit of Winthrop Mackworth Praed set the record. Closer to the riddle verse of folklore than to crossword puzzles, "Pa" Rolfe's charades ought to meet the hot-weather demand of many a plain reader for something humorous that does not cost much and may take the rest of the summer to finish...
...think clearly," he was merely tired of living. A first sign of recovery was the return of his interest in reading. Asylum readers favored Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health, the Saturday Evening Post. Except for suicide news, newspapers were seldom noticed. Most popular intellectual pursuit was crossword puzzles...