Word: speller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shirts & Sugar. They arrived six months later, and, with the King's reluctant permission, set up Protestant missions, devised a Hawaiian alphabet, soon printed a speller, began teaching eager natives, turned out countless yards of cambric Mother Hubbards, shirts and suits (the King ordered a dozen fancy shirts and a broadcloth jacket), promoted monogamy, introduced the spare, hardy architecture of New England whaling ports. A few years later Kamehameha III signed the "Hawaiian Magna Charta," thus paved the way for parliamentary government...
...their specialties. Adman Norman Norman sees Panelopoly as a sort of postgraduate course for contestants who have tried for the top money on The $64,000 Question. Explains Norman: "I got to thinking along this line when I realized that Mrs. Kreitzer and Gino Prato and Gloria Lockerman [the speller] were still big news long after they left the show. Why shouldn't we continue to take advantage of these people? They belong on Panelopoly...
...produce a U.S. family where the wife invites her husband to "make yourself comfortable, dear, in your slipper-gripper Mistletoes," or tells the children, "jump into your perma-sized skijamas, kids, while I make you some Dagwitches with diced cream and superfection strawberries?" Can he find a poor speller among those same children, who, doing his homework, writes "kar-pokits" or "kon-veen-yunt?" If so, the cross-pollenating Madison Avenue ad men would turn handsprings...
...geography, syndicated to 17 U.S. newspapers, when he was hired by the National Geographic Society at $60 a month as assistant secretary. La Gorce became a recognized authority on fresh and saltwater fish, edited the magazine's famed Book of Fishes. With his wife, a champion high school speller who still reads every word he writes to correct spelling errors, he has visited almost every country in the world except Russia. He plans no changes in the Geographic, still feels it has a job "to satisfy the human thirst for accurate information about people, places and things...
...Started. Scrabble was invented in 1933 by a New York architect named Alfred M. Butts, a man who has never enjoyed the game as fully as others because he is an indifferent speller. Butts and his wife played the game through the '30s and '40s, and made some 500 sets for their friends and the odd purchaser, but they never put it on the market. In 1948 a social worker named James Brunot took it over and invented the name "Scrabble" (dictionary meaning: "to scrape, paw or scratch with the hands or feet"). He and his wife started...