Fairhaven High School - Huttlestonian Yearbook (Fairhaven, MA)

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THE HUTTLESTONIAN 19 Intfii HISTORY of KH.S. v5omeMemorable bvents of the vSchoo] Year N I ' fas S I V Their Goal Attained. The. Ughe t The CopperReaA— Senior ' Tl y lihrary and Literary CUb Entertainments nr r IVew Assistant Freshman J)e hating ' Traffic Co pa! Inevitable! Foot ball -3an j yet Tea r

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18 THE HUTTLESTONIAN A Story For Cross Word Puzzle Fans OR, WHO WON THE AUTOMOBILE I BEGAN with the determination never to start working on cross¬ word puzzles, as it seemed the silliest idea now on the stand. When I rode to school on the street car in the morning, all down the row of seats my fellow travellers were sitting slumped down on the center of their spines, their whole attention on cross¬ word puzzles. If I stopped at the post-office for a money order, or other busi¬ ness, all the space at the desks was occupied by people with out¬ spread newspapers absorbed in the latest fad. If after dinner I went to the library to look up references on my school work, I found persons lined up three deep waiting for their turn to use dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias, head over heels in efforts to find out the next to the tallest mountain in the Fiji Islands or a direct descendant of Adam in sixteen letters. Finally, in self-defence, I decided to solve one of the puzzles, and made up my mind to win a limousine offered by a New York paper, as first prize in a cross-word contest. I thought how enjoy¬ able it would be to go riding with my friends in that lovely automobile. At first it came easy. Who doesn’t know a four letter word meaning lifeless? Dead, of course. A most pathetic vegetable? An onion, because it makes us weep. Sherman’s definition of war. I imagine every one knows that! At last most all the blanks were filled, and now came the real difficulty. There were words impossible for anyone to find in their own vocabulary: A Chinese word meaning sweet potato. An African insect that inhabits the hide of the hippo only. A principal ingredient of the most famous patent medicine. What the ostrich says when he stubs his toe. These and a dozen other problems occupied the better part of my mind for the rest of the three weeks available. Though I en- (Concluded on Page 30)

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