Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Renaissance. French schoolboys still have fun with such ideographic riddles as G a, which may be read J'ai grand appetit (G grand, appétit). More complex rebuses are pictures whose elements, correctly named and put together, make up words or sentences. Printing six riddles of this type every week in 308 newspapers. P. Lorillard Co., makers of Old Gold cigarets, began last February the longest and best-sustained wit-baiting promotion on record by a U. S. advertiser. A puzzle contest axiom is that half the contestants will drop out before the finish. When the Old Gold...
...Varro had grown to like and understand the East; thanks to his money and his sympathetic shrewdness he had become one of the most potent men in Syria. Then fate sent to Antioch, as Roman Governor, Varro's old acquaintance and antipathy, Cejonius. Because Cejonius, a cut-&-dried type of administrator, did Varro down on the little matter of a tax bill, Varro privately swore vengeance. He soon found a way to get even...
...above all "it should be our highest aim to produce the type of men who are able to visualize an entity rather than let themselves get absorbed too early in the narrow channels of specialization. Our century has produced the expert types in millions. Let us make way now for the men of vision...
These reports were "gleaned by a snooping reporter," the News frankly admits. It goes on to quote that "Yale tends to produce the sophisticated type," apparently insinuating that sophistication is an asset...
From biography of the romantic type which enlivened the facts and figures which surrounded the lives of Byron and Disraeli, Andre Maurois has turned to a more embracing history. In "The Miracle of England" we find not the romance of the biographies, not their witticisms, not, perhaps, their personality, but rather, as its English title suggests, merely "A History of England...