Word: hunting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RELIGION], when it really was "Applause." Probably the reason for my misreading, other than my old eyes, was that I am so used to reading fault-finding letters that I naturally look for faults. Hereafter I shall bear in mind that I can make mistakes ; and I shall not hunt for yours and be so wroth when I find...
...Treasure Hunt...
Newspaper circulation managers sit up late thinking out schemes to pique public curiosity. Lately, the New York Evening World calmly and cleverly ripped a page out of society's playbook, announced a $1,000 "treasure hunt." The Evening World's democratic clientele had heard about Edward of Wales' crawling on hands and knees through alleys in London's Limehouse district, accompanied by gorgeously dight female companions, nosing out clues to pots of gold. They had heard of young swells and sylphs of upper Park Ave. riding hilariously about Manhattan in limousines, sending their chauffeurs into Pierre's or Tiffany...
When the Evening World's first treasure hunt edition sizzled off the presses, it was met in the street by an eager throng of typists, bank-runners, cigar clerks and jobless wanderers, whose curiosity and appetite for adventure were whetted still keener by a very actual lust for booty...
Among the treasure-hunters was Charles W. Lind, an employe of the N. Y. Telephone Co. One of the men in the company had won a smaller treasure hunt the Evening World had held a fortnight before. Lind was bound not to be outdone and pondered hard over the clues. Reaching Union Square, he was still saying to himself, "Hmmmm, branch of the government . . . symbolical . . . army? Nope, not symbolical. . . . Pork barrel? Nope, too many letters. . . . Hmmmm...