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TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2021 On This Date Humor of the Day 1877 – A Montana newspaper, the Fort Benton Record, reporting on “Children are the most desirable the Royal Canadian Mounted Police opponents at Scabble as they (RCMP) said, “They fetch their are both easy to beat and man every time.” fun to cheat.” Hollywood later modifed this to ~ Fran Lebowitz “They always get their man.” The RCMP motto is actually “Defending Happy Birthday! the Law.” (1899–1993) 1939 – Wuthering Heights, starring was an American architect who was Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, born in Poughkeepsie, New York. and David Niven, was released. Butts is best known for inventing The critically-acclaimed flm the of . In the 1930s, won an Oscar for its dark and he decided to create a winning board brooding cinematography. game that combined both skill and luck, 1970 – An oxygen tank aboard utilizing a player’s Apollo 13 exploded while the craft prowess with words was 200,000 miles from Earth. as well as the power of Using great skill and ingenuity, the chance when pulling crew safely touched down in the letter tiles. Originally Pacifc Ocean four days later. titled Lexiko and Criss Cross Words, Daily Trivia Scrabble was frst trademarked in 1948 and has since sold more than The abbreviation for pound (lb.) 150 million sets. Butts was also an comes from the astrological sign artist. Some of his drawings are housed Libra, meaning “balance.” in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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UESDAY PRIL T , A 13, 2021

Today is Scrabble Day. The game was invented by architect Alfred Mosher Butts in 1933. Butts built each game individually in his garage, but in 1957,

when Macy’s placed a large order, he had to sell it to a large manufacturer.

Set the Record Straight The People Play

The Biblical tale of David slaying the Joel Boone was a highly decorated giant Goliath is often summoned as a World War I medical officer and metaphor for any underdog defeating the personal physician to President a giant. But some historians now Herbert Hoover. As such, he invented argue that Goliath was not a 20-foot a game for the president giant. Ancient texts describe Goliath to keep him fit, a game as “four cubits and a span,” exactly he called Hoover Ball. the same size as the width of the The game is played by protective gate outside Goliath’s two teams of four on a hometown of Gath. Some historians volleyball-style court of grass or contend that he was simply being sand. Players must throw a heavy, compared metaphorically to the six-pound medicine ball over an gateway as a defender of the town. eight-foot-high net. The ball must be Others, using ancient measurements caught before it touches the ground for cubits and spans, measure Goliath and thrown back from the point of the as six feet and nine inches tall. catch. The game is scored similarly to tennis. Hoover invited friends and Word Scramble VIPs to play each morning, calling

them his Medicine Ball Cabinet. N S O G E P

A soft, porous, absorbent Punny Business

material used for cleaning

SPONGE ANSWER: ANSWER: I meant to look for my missing watch, but I could never find the time.

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