Word: sodded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Under the sod...
...into Carrollton, Ky. one day last week to help celebrate Carrollton's first annual tobacco festival. They guffawed when a big black hearse lumbered into position at the head of a half-mile parade. Emblazoned on its side was the legend: OLD TOBACCO PRICES-SIX FEET UNDER THE SOD. To the blare of a 40-piece band they marched through the business streets of Carrollton to the Henry County Tobacco Warehouse. When somebody yelled "C'mon folks, the burgoo's ready!" they broke ranks, stampeded for the warehouse platform...
...justice of the award. And so it is at right end where big Pete Kopcsak stands head and shoulders (literally and figuratively) above the other candidates. You have got to ask us something harder than to pick the best left tackle that has trod the Stadium sod this fall because Buzz Harvey wins without much competition. Hutchison of the Army and Kilcullen of Yale get honorable mention in this class and it looks like Hutchison for the second team...
...credit; Mr. Ickes, in however small a way, is flying directly in the face of economic reason, and building for us bathos. Let the errant horses be yoked to the plow, and the dilatory horses spurred into life, or more than the cotton will be turned under the sod. POLLUX...