The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-07-20


appears that psychiatrists failed to turn their
penetrating and scientific the makers OF crosworo
puzzles the people who the designs
and squares any has had normal baby
hood with building blocks and hghscnooi f
mary with graphpaper can design for crossword
puzzle or hundred designs people psychatrc
investigation the boys( or grs who make up the
Certainly it is peculiar that define threeeter
word organ of hearing and then blandy offer spock
vacancy the blunt statement kava is interesting mind
from the psycharss viewpoint that "head covering
for threeetter beginning with and Immediately after
that "nahOor" the definition of xletter word
not "bharapD All this like asking little Tommy for the
of two and wo and then demanding that he give the
cube root of 43657 psycharst should be interested
No doubt the puzzemaker finds difficulty in keyngin
lot of words, and strange is bound to crop and
then We have to bear with occasional sacred bull of Egypt
Turkish regiment Hindu queen (Which is runi
according exigencies) But surely puzemaker
worthy publication should be able maintain kind Of
throughout each piece work isn't fair and is hardly
suddenly without slightest warning bring up against
towering cliff or toss him into Grand Canyon t
There are ciffcmbers of course and canyon connois
But point make that such specialists have their
specialists have their special puzzles prepared for them
the stroller along the simple paths of puzzedom the
lad seeking repoeu sort of relaxation suddenly confronted
with an alien and upsar difficulty he is not Justly dealt with
than demand that he rack his brains FOR what not in them
ing the big dictionary And anyhow the real
feels that isn't playing fair to pull dictionary on cross
word puzzle.
Once you get at the dictionary however you pretty
gaining Incidental bits of information add to
culture IT, for example look that word kdva Git de-
fines pep2e will be informed that the word either
of two species of shrubby plant Then reading
find that the roots of either species can be used to make
kind of intoxicating drink You find that the impatient
personke the zpowder lad who can't wait for tablet to
dsSovean get exharated by chewing the raw root OF the
kdvd not delaying brew dist into drink Such are the
rewards of research.
mean alien words thrust suddenly upon placid and
somnoent sovers often defined with ohand of the
definite article which suggest that the
defined something anybody should know Thus you find the
is or the sHeets0p (a.ss sha presented the the In
this fashion, example, he back door, he tele
and eel and hat and toe and Great Lake and consume and
then ary he ura" is stinkeroo He shall not have
of our kavaroot to chew.
Now that word "the ural" (Which also nahoor and
h an interesting one once you have overcome your resent
men of the he and aversion to looking the thing up
Websters Unabridged wild sheep of northern Ind
chin to chest Why did the puzlemaker not define his ord
(nahoor sha) by wild sheep northern India?" T
could have passed hopeful of keyng out without d
no; he say-the nsufferable snobthe urS
though ANYBODY who knows anything must know what thd
and leaving so reenu of his snide uppshness that
don't watch how (and whether) 1t keys out
It is good to know "the uria" and to learn that
pronounced ooa with stress on first syllable and with no
sound of about it anywhereit is like Arthur Godfreys
oolele good to know Webstes definition OF tins animal
and the question of who told Webster about it. Is
pleasant contemplate in fancy the wild ial fleeing from the
wild urialhunter OF northern Who dsapponted OF
pray doubtless shd One the uria in moments
repos srokg its dark beard with medave hoof
deciding which of the north Indian wids he will next be
wild in.
That thing "the sweesop" euded for We
put down ates quickly and Danish it from mind But
Webster by he ura turned back for nfor-
he sweesop" which had unaccountaby associ
with sweebread those mysterious things which neither
breads Well "e sweetsop turns out to be tree
and the fruit of is, competent informant
Webster tropical American tree, ammonia squnosd; also
its sweet pupy fruit which has thick green scay rind and
black seeds"
Back to crosswords Did you know there called
he soursop?" Pearshaped fruit slightly acrd taste Let the
urial" expert figure out slippy name for that one.