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Engaged. Miss Katherine Langley, daughter of Congressman John W. Langley of Pikeville, Ky., to one James G. Bentley. Readers of the Pike County News gnawed their pencils, solved a crossword puzzle, discovered it to be an announcement of the engagement...
...example, the New York Evening Graphic. Manhattan gum chewers' sheetlet, property ? of Bernarr Macfadden, planned a Crossword Puzzle Contest. Others copied it and one even went to the extent of printing the probable answers of the Graphic's puzzles (TIME, Feb. 2). But the crossword puzzle contest wore out; and the Graphic promptly announced a new contest, or series of contests?$150 a day in prizes for the last line of incomplete limericks to be published...
Premier Stanley Baldwin addressed the Press Club in Salisbury Square, twitted them upon the use of crossword puzzles as an educational medium...
...himself frequents, racking their brains over small squares of paper charted in black and white squares which gaped to be filled in, horizontally and vertically, with words of Egyptian, European and native derivation, he is said to have cried "Meat!" The Graphic, he announced, "will conduct the greatest crossword puzzle contest ever inaugurated by a newspaper." The contest forthwith began. Prizes were announced to aggregate...
...wizened attendants of the playhouses looked at each other and pinched their wrinkled ears. Had Fate suddenly peeled a quarter-century away and made them young again? Surely this was not a modern musical adventure, despite its stock of radio and crossword puzzle jests. It was, rather, a curio dug up from the old downtown days. It had a soldier named Bang Bang, an ingenue named Fli Wun, a prince named Cha Ming, bandits named Hi and Lo. It had a plot about a Chinese Princess who fell in love with a voice; the voice kidnaped her and turned...