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Word: anagram (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...first letter of the words of the article's introduction comprises an anagram, which reads. "Happy April Fool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plimpton's Hoax Places Harvard Fireballer on Mets | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...striking physical presence provides a marvelous ironic contrast to her dithering sensibility). Phil steals his own child, beats up a bubble dancer (Judith Ivey) and finally kills himself. At the end, Eddie is frantically leafing through the dictionary, hoping to find in his pal's suicide note an anagram that will reveal the meaning in an apparently meaningless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Failing Words | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...into oodles of "scrummy" jams while defending the honor bright of Grangewood, "the jolliest school in England." As it happens, Denise Deegan's Daisy Pulls It Off is neither a revival nor a musical (though it boasts a catchy school song by one "Beryl Waddle-Browne," an anagram for the show's producer, Andrew Lloyd Webber). It is a sparkling, spanking-new parody of the Brazil novels that manages to be at once knowing and wide-eyed. The entire cast is darling-one wants to adopt the lot of them-led by Alexandra Mathie as Daisy, the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Looking for the Real Thing | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

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