[78-L] ^ Diamond Disc Collection - Wrapped in 1944 Newspaper

[David Lennick]

http://communicrossings.com/crosswords-1920s

Includes a few songs c. 1925. Simon and Schuster published the first collection 
in 1924 (and launched their own company with it).

On 7/17/2014 12:27 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>
> Didn't the fad really take off around 1925?
>
> dl
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> On 7/17/2014 12:23 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>>
>> Not to go too far afield, but I'd like to see the crossword puzzle(s).
>> Since they began being published and started becoming popular roughly
>> right around the same time the phonograph was invented (very roughly),
>> the English language has morphed as it absorbed and rejected local and
>> idiomatic variations. So words, phrases and brand names that are popular
>> today were not necessarily so at the turn of the 20th century.
>> Doing early puzzles, even after they were introduced in newsprint c.
>> 1917 in the Boston Globe, is challenging and requires some research
>> today. Ours will no doubt be similar for someone doing a 2010 crossword
>> in 2080.
>> Even humorous references change from era to era, but, fortunately, puns
>> go on forever.
>> Malcolm
>>
>> *******
>>
>>
>> On 7/17/2014 4:04 AM, Don Cox wrote:
>>> On 16/07/2014, Mike Harkin wrote:
>>>
>>>> I should think the newspapers would make as interesting
>>>> reading as the discs do listening!  Would love to see the
>>>> Sunday funnies, if nothing else....  I remember sitting on
>>>> my grandma's lap as she read them to me around that time
>>>> --  many of them long gone from the scene....
>>>>
>>> Many of the classic strips have been reprinted in book
>>> form, especially by the Library of American Comics and by Fantagraphics..
>>>
>>> http://www.libraryofamericancomics.com/
>>> http://www.fantagraphics.com/
>>>
>>> Naturally it is not the same as following a strip in the paper day by
>>> day and week by week.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>