1. The underlined word “deactivated” is closest in meaning to “___”. A.checkedB.kept C.closedD.updated 2. What did the author do to change her life? A.She traveled around a lot for a year. B.She went to the gym as often as she could. C.She ...
It wants to throw in supernatural elements, tons of allegory, rhetoric about Dalit emancipation and what not, to the point where I walked out a bit punch drunk, as though I had been bludgeoned on the head with a cryptic crossword. The straight story is simply this: a Brit on the edge...
So I typically babble and try to change the subject like “hey, why does the word brasserie mean restaurant? Shouldn’t that be what bra shops are called? Maybe if there was a restaurant in the bra shop, it would be more fun to go there. Whaddya think?”Clearly the conversation was n...
The common zipper was a relatively new invention in 1934. It had been more or less perfected by 1920, and in 1923 the B. F. Goodrich Company would coin the onomatopoetic word to describe the newfangled fastener on its galoshes, but it would take a while for the fashion industry to adopt...
Shifting in my chair, I sat the book of crossword puzzles down on my lap and glanced over at Peter, who’d fallen asleep in his rocker. I like Peter. He must have been a looker in his youth; there are still traces of a once attractive man around his eyes. Those blue eyes, now ...
were put in place by women like Ruth Hale, the founding president of the Amateur Cross Word Puzzle League of America, Helen Haven, who organized the first competitive crossword-solving contest in 1924, and Margaret Farrar, who became the first editor of the New York Times crossword in 1942...
Befuddled by a crossword puzzle, Hawkeye persuades Potter to get his old friend Tippy Brooks, a whiz at puzzles, brought to camp. Tippy arrives with his commanding officer, thinking it's a medical emergency. Having scrubbed up and helped out with the wounded they provided the needed solution...
Max Schuster and Richard Simon of Simon & Schuster, with their first crossword book, 1924. (americanbusinesshistory.org) White concluded with these parting words, tinged with world-weariness, writing “More seems likely to happen.” One wonders if he imagined The New Yorker at 100, which ...
From an opening cover featuring embossed graphics of martial arts, to a set of sky photographs with scientific data and hidden-coded-crossword puzzles, to photographs of the ocean, this book doesn’t explain itself so much as force you to ask questions. But then you consider the title. War...
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