Compiled by Nat Gertler
This delightful book is filled with crossword puzzles from the 1920s, plus articles, cartoons, and more on the topic of crosswords from the newspapers of the day.
In the 1920s, crosswords were everywhere. At the start of the decade, the “cross-word puzzle” was an obscure feature to be found in a handful of America’s newspapers. By 1924, they were a craze, the fad of the moment that was celebrated by many and decried by scolds. They were a driving force for public events and fashion, a cause for skyrocketing dictionary sales, and a significant driver of newspapers subscriptions. The first crossword puzzle books were published, and there were novels, plays, and songs on the topic. The crossword earned its permanent place in the culture during this time, This book was crafted from the archives of over 100 newspapers, not just from the 48 states that were in the U.S. at that point, but also from the English-speaking world beyond. Enclosed you will find: 100 puzzles with solutions – not just the standard daily newspaper puzzles of the time, but puzzles created for contests, puzzles created in contests, advertising puzzles. There are puzzles ranging from little illustrated ones for children to a 32-by-32 square behemoth with hundreds of words. There are puzzles meant for everyone, and ones meant for such special audiences as the Latin student or the radio addict. 100 newspapers clippings – articles, cartoons, advertisements, and more from the time, all reflecting the crossword craze of the day.
Is this a puzzle book? Is it a history scrapbook? It’s both, with plenty for the history buff and the puzzle fan alike! A great gift for the puzzle fan in your life… even if that fan is yourself.
- ISBN-10 : 1949996891
- ISBN-13 : 978-1949996890
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 11 inches, 128 pages
, who provides “unsolicited advice on how not to play bridge.”
Cartoonist H.T. Webster may be best known for his decades of chronicling the adventures of the “Timid Soul” Casper Milquetoast, but he repeatedly chronicled in cartoon form the foibles of players of card games, most notably poker and bridge. Here we have fifty of his poker cartoons, matched with some light writings on the game by pulp writer George F. Worts and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Algonquin Round Table member Marc Connelly, a guide to the rules by game expert R. F. Foster, and a foreword by noted Chicago chronicler George Ade.
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