Word: crostic
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Anybody who passed long enough in his Collegeward journey to solve the Double Crostic in yesterday's New York Times would have found the name of the hidden author vaguely familiar...
...planned societies, Van Wyck Brooks, progressive education. With enthusiasms just as intense as his animosities, he called Robert Frost "the finest American poet, living or dead," raged at critics who did not agree. The back pages of the Saturday Review continued to be given over to literary double-crostic puzzles and the meandering pleasantries of Christopher Morley and old Q; but up front each week readers got the most violent U. S. criticism since Mencken (but not so sharply phrased as Mencken's), in reviews that seethed and sizzled...
...fitting prelude to the agony columns that have made the "Saturday Review" famous and may do the same for the "Advocate". The Personals and the Classified ads alone make this issue worth any man's, or, better still, any maid's, quarter. There is also a double-crostic, no harder to work than those Mrs. Kingsley usually presents. The faint Limerick tinge to this one merely shows we are in Boston, not New York, "Bilge Water," a good copy of Quercus' column for the trade, brings up the rear...