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...form of puzzle known as the rebus is supposed to have originated in Picardy. a French province famed for its roses, in the early Renaissance. French schoolboys still have fun with such ideographic riddles as G a, which may be read J'ai grand appetit (G grand, appétit). More complex rebuses are pictures whose elements, correctly named and put together, make up words or sentences. Printing six riddles of this type every week in 308 newspapers. P. Lorillard Co., makers of Old Gold cigarets, began last February the longest and best-sustained wit-baiting promotion on record...
...their semi-annual convention in Manhattan, members of the National Puzzlers' League teased one another's brains for three days with: an anagram for "a counterfeit nickel" (solution: "Notice, fake lucre, tin"); a transdeletion or progressive anagram from '"sod" to "countryside" in eleven changes; a rebus of an H written inside a G, both over a W (since it is The H and writ in G on the W all, the solution is: "The handwriting on the wall"); and interminable alphagrams, charades, transposals, cryptograms, rhomboids, antigrams, palindromes, inverted pyramids and plain puzzles. Outstanding contribution was a "seventeen...
Thomas Alva Edison last week again knuckled to the U. S. insistency that a celebrity be a pundit on all manner of things. His medium was Review of Reviews (monthly). Thus from his seat at West Orange, N. J. did Thomas Edison pontificate de rebus sanitatis: Are there certain definite fields in which the research of the future will...
...AEquam memento rebus in arduis Servare mentem...