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...Aerial stories, crossword puzzles, Paris fashion reports were added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A.P. | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...will be when one huge phalanx starts stepping on another phalanx's toes! Automobile v. billiard table (go out and play v. stay home and play). Apartment v. baby carriage (a baby cannot be taken for a ride on a roof). Meat v. vegetable (doctors disagree). Radio v. crossword puzzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Better Sellers | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...that select fancies and foibles and reduce all else to hazy indistinction. Only occasionally, when fads are scarce, he must turn to what is merely new, whether or not it possesses the gaudy qualities that best suit his vein. In hard times like these, when Mah Jong, Princeton, the crossword puzzle, channel swimming, Lindbergh, Mayor Thompson and Hickman are no longer news, he is obliged to seize whatever the day offers. Such understanding of an old, yet somehow ever new, problem explains the consideration of the Reading Period in the current issuse of the Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUFF OF NONSENSE | 2/24/1928 | See Source »

...pass without speaking to some one about their soul's salvation . . . There will be 365 in a year that shall hear the gospel from my lips." With Ira David Sankey, who sang hymns, he toured the U. S. and England, giving his solution to the gigantic crossword puzzle of the universe. . Before he died, he wrote this beginning-..for his autobiography: "Some day you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now." If this last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION,FICTION: Mighty Moody | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Born. To Editor John Chipman Farrar of the Bookman (see p. 23) and Margaret Petherbridge Farrar, co-author of the crossword puzzle, a son, John Chipman Jr., "8 Ibs., red hair, light complected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 18, 1927 | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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