Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldsters to whom the charade is the "prince of puzzles" will find this collection better than most since the nimble wit of Winthrop Mackworth Praed set the record. Closer to the riddle verse of folklore than to crossword puzzles, "Pa" Rolfe's charades ought to meet the hot-weather demand of many a plain reader for something humorous that does not cost much and may take the rest of the summer to finish...
...UNHOLY CITY-Charles G. Finney -Vanguard ($2). Satirical phantasy, in the Major Hoople cartoon vein of wit, about an airline passenger grounded in Floreat Go-Lee; by the author of The Circus...
...finest jewels of U. S. newspaperdom, was more like a resolutions committee-of-the-whole than like a convention. No one was elected to anything. No one was even nominated. After he had delivered himself of a 1,500-word oration on Freedom of the Press, President Stahlman, whose wit is as nimble as his sarcasm, settled down in the speaker's chair to conduct the meeting with good-natured flippancy, cutting short the long-winded, moving things along at a swift pace. Only real business at hand was the wording of an anti-Guild resolution...
...This improvement is all on record. It does not represent an abnormal expansion of business, when measured against the needs to be filled and the capacity available to fill them, or when compared wit the past; and if the industries are allowed to operate with efficiency, keep their cost down, and price their goods at levels that will keep trade going, there will be little concern as to business in the second half year...
...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 by a U. S. advertiser. A puzzle contest axiom is that half the contestants will drop out before the finish. When the Old Gold contest closed last week, 85% of the starters were still hanging on for a chance at the unprecedented $100,000 first prize...