THIS
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SHELBY LITTLE
University of Virginia Library
GV;1507;.W8;L5;1927
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This to that; the word-change
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LIBRARY OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
UNIVERSITY
1819
OF
VIRGINIA
FROM THE BOOKS OF
JOHN SHELTON PATTON
LIBRARIAN 1903-1927
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

THIS TO THAT
THIS TO THAT
The Word-Change
Book
By
SHELBY LITTLE
With an Introduction by
RICHARD HENRY LITTLE
NEW YORK
MINTON, BALCH & COMPANY
1927
COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY
MINTON, BALCH & COMPANY
GV
1507
W8L5
1927
517154
UV
GIFT
MAY 3'51
PRESS OF J. J. LITTLE & IVES CO., NEW YORK
ΤΟ
THOSE CHARMING PEOPLE
WHO ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THINGS
AS THEY ARE
INTRODUCTION
This new word-change game is a fascinating thing. It
looks so easy. (Hey! wait a minute until I work that
out - EASY to HARD! I ought to do that one in ten
steps.) But I'm writing an introduction and an introduction
is something written by one of the author's friends knocking
the book. (That's a wow! KNOCK to BOOST. Oh,
gosh, S. L.-author! author!—says to leave it alone
because she asked Mayor Thompson to work that one
and he did it as neatly as you please. He would.) Well,
there has to be an introduction because the author of a book
is always too proud to tell what it's all about and so she
corners some kind friend and says: "You tell 'em, old boy, I
haven't the heart."
-
- if you
So it's my job to tell you about word-changes
don't already know. If you do know, don't bother to read
this. Skip right along, brother, and get into the book
(Look BOOK to READ!) This game has to do with an-
tonyms - you know, words that are contrary and cantan-
kerous enough to differ flatly from other words. You start
with the first word and change one letter at a time until
you've built a bridge of words that will take you to the word
you started for. Take a word and think of its opposite; any
word will do but the catch comes with the opposite, because
that has to have the same number of letters. (We hope Mr. P.
M. Roget and Mr. C. O. Sylvester Mawson will be decent
enough to present us with a new, limp leather, gold
embossed thesaurus for all this free advertising we're
giving them.) All right, now, take a word. I hear a lady
in the audience say WHITE. I thought you would say that,
they always do. Well, anyway, we'll take the word WHITE.
It's a perfectly good word. Nothing wrong with it, why
shouldn't we take it! What now, ladies and gentlemen-
I trust you can all hear me what now is the antonym, the
opposite, to WHITE? don't say PINK or GREEN in
This is a serious subject and
Now
the hope of getting a laugh.
such levity is out of place. I'll tell you the opposite to
WHITE - I'll tell you myself—it's BLACK. Now then
we are to build the bridge on which we will cross from the
one extreme to the other that is, from WHITE to
BLACK.
Well, we told you once, but we don't mind telling you
again that you begin with WHITE and change one letter at a
time until WHITE becomes BLACK. You say it cannot be
done, that WHITE can never be BLACK. Well, that's
where you're wrong (always put the other fellow in the wrong).
Just have patience, patience and perseverance, and you'll see.
Let us change one letter in our base word. Let us change the
letter "H" to something else - I never liked that letter any-
how and I can drop it without the slightest pain. Suppose
we change the "H" in WHITE to "R" and see how easy
it is! we have the word WRITE. Now if you don't mind
parting with that “W”— and why you should, I can't imagine
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and accepting a plebeian "T" in its place, you'll have the
word TRITE. I could go right on and do the whole trick
very nimbly for you, but the author (she's always inter-
rupting me just when I'm going good) tells me to leave it alone
because she gave that job to Al Jolson who changes from
WHITE to BLACK every time he makes up to go on the
stage. So turn over to where Mr. Jolson can be found and
you will know just how he does it. If you can beat Mr.
Jolson changing from WHITE to BLACK, go to it, but we
warn you that Al does a swell job.
All right, since we were stopped on that one, let's think up
some other words of extreme meaning. Now, what would
be a good one? Let's see, what comes first at dinner
SOUP or as it is now pronounced in our country - ZOUP!
But let us be reactionary and take the word as our ancestors
pronounced it in the days before the Greeks came over-
SOUP. We sit down at dinner and if we're polite (we assume,
of course, that you're dining out and not unpopular enough
to be buying your own dinner) we don't refuse anything, but
go straight from SOUP to NUTS. There we are SOUP
and its antithesis- NUTS. I could work it out for you in
detail, because I'm really very good at this game, but if you
have nous, you can do it yourselves and that's better. And
if you can't, Emily Post does it for you in the back of the book
and it would be rude to beat a lady to it. Besides, think of
being rude to Emily Post! We might put it over with some
people, but Emily Post! No, thank you.
However, you get the idea. Wait a minute, brothers and
sisters, wait a minute. IDEA!
IDEA! What is the opposite of
IDEA! If a person didn't have an idea in his cranium, what
would he be? Come, now, what would he be? I hear some-
one shouting from the gallery. "the same as you!" Now,
now, I ask you, who ever said that? Do you think that's
nice? Ah, the very pretty lady down here in front is looking
right at me and saying "DUMB!" That will do very nicely.
If a person, let us say, hasn't one single idea in his dome,
then we call him DUMB. Very rude, yes, but we do it
and if he isn't within hearing distance, we can get away with
it. But although he may be dumb, if he studies and works
very hard in school, then some day he will have an IDEA.
It may not be much of an idea, but any sort of idea is better
than being completely and hopelessly dumb and is, therefore,
very commendable indeed. Where is the author now?
(We were determined to get in a dirty crack somewhere.)
Oh, there she is. Author, what are the steps from DUMB
to IDEA? Thank you, author - here we are: DUMB
rumb
rams rats oats orts ores odes
ides IDEA. Marvelous! (See if you can beat her.
That's where the fun comes in, beating someone
else.)
—
- rums
—
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Now for the laws of the word-change game. In our country
we always want to know what the law is. We can't turn a
wheel without laws. We can't breathe or eat or sleep or wear
clothes in this country without somebody making a law about
it. So when we take up a new thing we want to know first
what the Constitution of the United States says about it.
Then we want to know the Congressional Enactments on the
subject; then what the legislature of our own state has done
about it and the county board and the city council. After
that, we can go ahead and break the law. It's always more
fun breaking the law if you know just what it is before hand.
This word-change game is too new to have got into the Con-
stitution yet. But it will. The reformers are already taking
an interest in it now they find that people are getting a lot of
fun out of it. And maybe (read the newspapers-adv.)
they'll have it stopped before this book is on the stalls. We
hope to see an amendment to the Constitution very soon for-
bidding the playing of this demoralizing word-change game in
the United States of America, New York City, the Philippine
Islands, Honolulu, Porto Rico and Williamson County,
Illinois. Then everybody will play it and the author will
sell millions of books. That's where I come in. The author
is a wife of mine. If my wife sells many of these books,
she will have much money you see- WIFE to GOLD!
in eight steps without a dictionary. Wonderful!
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There are some more laws of this game, but they're short and
sweet. You've got to use good honest English dictionary
words. Foreign words, proper names, slang words that
haven't grown respectable enough to be recognized by the
dictionaries and words that you invent yourselves to suit
the emergency won't do. But as you work this game out,
you'll find there are enough real words in the English language
to serve your purpose and you won't have to use names out of
the telephone book or Swedish dialect. The dictionary says
it contains 317,000. We never counted them, so we don't
know, but we won't argue about it. Of course, if you know
them all and feel sure that none of them will fit in the place
you want it to, well, even then you're not allowed to get
foreign words or telephone directory names or make words up.
I don't know what you would do that's your business,
because you're working them. All I know is what you can't
do and I've been told to tell you about it.
―
You'll like this word-change game. Those who have already
taken it up are wild about it. (Wait, wait! WILD — that's
a good word, but before you go wild, what are you?
TAME. That's it, that's it - they're off! From TAME
to WILD — on your mark - GO!) Anyway, I hope this
new word-change game is going to be an antidote for that
"What Assyrian king played the saxophone?" and "Why is
hoozelum and what is it used for?"
Which reminds me that you almost didn't get this book.
Someone told the author that the game was extremely
educational and she immediately went on a strike. I only
persuaded her to go on with it by promising to assure
you that it isn't, that it won't do you a damn bit of good,
because you'll get so excited making the leap from DRY to
WET or from WATER to BOOZE that you'll forget to look
up the meaning of any of the queer words you'll have to use.
And what earthly use does a word do you when you haven't
the faintest idea what it means? I ask you. Now that that's
settled and you know that this word-change game won't
educate you in spite of yourselves, you can go ahead and play
it. Work them out in less than-wait, wait, I can't tell you
anything more. I've got to do that one. Get it? Sure you
do. WORK to PLAY. Bet I can do it in eight steps!
RICHARD HENRY LITTLE
AUTHOR'S NOTE
One remembers somewhere to have heard that competition
is the life of something, just what it is impossible to say.
Anyway, the "Answers in the Back of the Book" were
secured with that idea in mind. The fact that admiring
friends (and all of us are prevented from quite realizing our
place in the cosmos by admiring friends) have said that they
were more than that that, not to make too long a sentence
of it, they constituted one hundred and eighty two-word
biographies - has nothing to do with it. If some of them
tell all that need be told (since every man's life is his own
unless he be indiscreet or hire a press agent) well and good.
And if a few of them were sent out in malice, the compiler
was at least decently abashed by the thorough-going sports-
manship with which the recipients took it standing up.
Contrary to custom in such cases, no descriptive line has
been attached, either parenthetically or otherwise, to anyone's
name; and the omission is not unintentional. Explanations
are invariably tedious; it is one of the minor tragedies of life
that someone is always making them. In Dr. Pangloss' best
of all possible worlds, it should long since have become ob-
vious that people who require explaining are not worth it
and people who are worth explaining do not need it. If you
do not know who each of these people is, it is your own loss;
and if one had formed the quaint habit of giving advice, one
would tell you to find out. Some of them have been rescued
from those singularly dull (considering that they are also red)
covers of Who's Who; some are distinguished by qualities
too elusive yet to have been caught in that staid and respect-
able leveller where all names look alike and so few have
ever been heard of before. And although their ways have
lain at queer angles, they all have at least one thing in common
whatever they do is interesting and however they do it,
it is done well.
And now in an utter inability to express adequate gratitude
for their kindness in helping us (and in the manner of all
really nice people, seeming to enjoy it) there seems nothing
left except to hope that the wholly unjustifiable air about
this book will in itself be disarming. The game is not new.
It was old in the late Nineties when the compiler was born;
it was, for all one knows to the contrary, old when Socrates
was born - or, if you prefer your allusions Semitic, it was
quite probably old when Methuselah was still in his first
five centuries. All that can be said for it then is that age
seems not to have destroyed the engaging simplicity of its
fascination and in a world jaded now with complexities, it is
almost a relief. And perhaps that is enough.
SHELBY LITTLE
RULES
1. Only one letter may be changed at a time.
2. No letter may be transposed.
3. Only English words, not definitely marked obsolete, to
be found in standard unabridged dictionaries, may be secured
by each change. Foreign words, simplified spelling, abbrevia-
tions and proper names are barred.
(The compiler of this book declines to be held respon-
sible for any transgressions of the above rules, either
real or apparent, made in the "Answers" - her job
ends with Problem No. 180. When you get past there
it's simply a case of every man for himself and the one
with the largest vocabulary and the heaviest dictionary
wins.
Furthermore, no guarantee is given that the word-
changes are made in the least possible number of steps.
If you want a word-change done right, you've just got
to quit your job, retire to some nice quiet sanitarium,
and work the damn thing out yourself.)
THIS TO THAT
"There is a certain relief in change,
even though it be from bad to worse.'
""
-Tales of a Traveller.
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ANSWERS
ANSWERS
1. WAYNE B. WHEELER-
WET - wen den
-
WET-wat
way-
-
dey - DRY
wry - DRY
It was disconcerting enough to see
that WET could be changed to DRY even
once, but Mr. Wheeler became so en-
thusiastic on the subject that he did it
twice before I could stop him.
2. WILLIAM BEEBE-
BIRD-gird - girt - gist
Score: 4 steps
Score: 4 steps
fist- FISH Score: 5 steps
3. CHARLES SUMNER WOOLWORTH-
DIMES dames dales bales
balks bulks - BUCKS
-
Of course Mr. Woolworth can change
nickels to dollars too, but it takes longer.
4. LIONEL ATWILL –
Score: 6 steps
HELP hell fell fall fail FOIL Score: 5 steps
-
-
5. LEE SHUBERT —
CLAD clod cood
-
—
COOS
cods
Score: 8 steps
rods - rode rude NUDE
-
6. EMILY POST-
SOUP Score: 4 steps
-
sous
nous nots NUTS
7. CARRIE JACOBS BOND—
DAWN damn darn durn
DUSK
Well, ain't this the end of a perfect day!
8. BEN TURPIN —
Score: 6 steps
―
CLOSE chose - chore
sport-aport - APART
shore short
Score: 7 steps
"That's the kind of eyes I've got,"
wrote Ben, "and they're such a comfort
to me!"
9. CARL SANDBURG—
SMOKE - stoke · stole - stele - stell-
STEEL
10. MARSHALL FIELD III
-
Score: 5 steps
HEAD · read road rood
-
root
-
FOOT
"And," said Mr. Field, "it's a darn
sight more difficult than it looks."
11. JANE COWL -
Score: 5 steps
moon - SOON
LATE
-
mate
mote
―
- mott moot
Score: 6 steps
—
―
- bent
Score: 6 steps
12. BRUCE BARTON-
--
PRAY bray brat beat
dent - DENY
13. CLARENCE DARROW
JAIL fail feil feel feet fret
FREE
An unimpeachable honesty compels
Score: 6 steps
us to say that the above isn't the way
Mr. Darrow does it. He refused quite
flatly to give away his secret. "And,"
added Mr. Darrow with a quite par-
donable touch of pride,” I can go from
JUDGES to JURIES in only two steps,
but I'll not tell you how I do that
either!"
14. WILLIAM MCFEE-
SHIP shop shot
PORT
―
soot
sort
-
Score: 5 steps
15. GERTRUDE ATHERTON —
OLD- ole ore
ort
bet net
―
NEW
Dr. Steinach please write.
16. EDWIN B. FROST—
MOON moan
STAR
M
oat bat
Score: 8 steps
roan
roar
soar
Score: 5 steps
Dr. Frost warns us that even though
he can
and, count'em, does - go from
the moon to the nearest star in five
jumps, each hop will average five million
million miles. That should hold the
non-stop flyers for a while.
17. ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT -
grown
cress chess
GROAN
―
cross
crows
chest cheat
――
crown
cheap - cheep
Score: 11 steps
―
CHEER
18. MARY LANDON BAKER —
wilt wint - WON'T!
WILL
-
―
19. RICHARD BENNETT -
FREE fret feet beet best
lest - last
-
east-EASY
Score: 3 steps
Score: 8 steps
20. KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS-
FALSE - fause
trest
TRUTH
-
tress
21. SNOWSHOE AL —
LEARN
faust
frust
trust
trets
—
――
trots troth
Score: 10 steps
yearn
years
wears hears gears bears
boats
goats
tears
boars
-
goads goods woods
moods-hoods-hooks-nooks- looks
books boots
—
bouts bolts belts
yells tells wells
bells
cells
dells
sells
seals
-
meets melts -
pelts
—
weeds
―
seeds
sears
―
seats
meats
welts - welds
deeds needs feeds - reeds
seems - seams
stars
—
-
reams
rears
stare stale stile
still- spill -SPELL
―
――
Young Mr. Bromley was very sulky
about this. He said he "could uv dun
tha dam thing in only fifty-three steps"
if we had let him spell his own way.
22. GEORGE WHITE-
Score: 56 steps
HIGH
sore
sigh
—
—
sire
sige ―
sort soot slot flot
FREE
floe flee
The first-night boys who paid fifty-five
dollars for ringside seats at the Scandals
and then saw Percy Hammond walk
through on a pass, will at last under-
stand how Mr. White gets that way.
23. HARRY HANSEN
-
ALAS
orts
malt
-
-
ales
oats
―
-
ades
oars
mall- mail- HAIL
Score: 11 steps
odes
mars
ores
mart
Score: 13 steps
24. GEORGE S. PARKER
―
PEN pin- sin son ion inn
INK
Make what you like of it, but the fact
remains that Mr. Parker wrote his an-
swer with a pencil.
25. GENERAL CHARLES GATES DAWES -
SLOW
FAST
slotsoot-loot-lost — last
26. JOHN PHILIP SOUSA —
Score: 6 steps
Score: 6 steps
LEAD-load goad GOLD
"This is for the man in a hurry," wrote
Mr. Sousa, "but LEAD-head-held-
hold GOLD would be better for the
Score: 3 steps
piece worker; and LEAD-lean-yean-
· bran
brad
—
brat
coat
-
colt
pean bean
boat
cold GOLD
would be swell for the guy who works by
the hour - he could use up time analys-
ing it.”
27. RED GRANGE-
LOSS lass
gall-gail-GAIN
pass pals
pall
Score: 7 steps
28. HARRIET MONROE
JOY boy -bob- sob son
WOE
won
On this side of the ring, ladies and
gennntulmen, we have Miss Harriet
Monroe - in the other corner, we have
Mr. Eddie Guest-you all know the
referee- GONG!
29. TEXAS GUINAN-
OPEN
-
―
opes apes aped sped
--
shed shod shot
SHUT
Score: 6 steps
Score: 8 ti-er-steps
Eight steps- only eight steps! Come
now, give the little girl a hand!
30. EDGAR A. GUEST -
SOB-bob-boy
boy-toy-try - CRY
-
Score: 5 steps
31. GLENNA COLLETT-
-
LOSE hose host hest
-
heat
BEAT
Score: 5 steps
32. JOSEPH LEITER —
MONEY honey
hints
―
hones
hines
hears HEIRS
Score: 8 steps
-hents - heats
33. DONALD OGDEN STEWART-
SANE
cane
cone
-
cuts - NUTS
cote
―
cots
Score: 6 steps
"Nothing personal, I hope,”—D.O.S.
34. TOM TAGGART-
JACK tack tick
KING
35. FLOYD DELL-
kick
-
kink
Score: 5 steps
WARM
warn
worn
corn
coon
COOL
Score: 5 steps
36. ROLAND YOUNG
RAKE
rare
―
hare here - HERO
―
Score: 4 steps
37. JOHN D. HERTZ-
LIFT loft loot coot
crop-DROP
coop
Score: 6 steps
38. PERCY HAMMOND
AND-ant — art — ort
39. GEORGE M. COHAN
WAVE
ware
out
- BUT
Score: 5 steps
wore
www
fore
—
fort
Score: 8 steps
foot-flot-flog-FLAG
O— -
oh can you see-e-e-
40. NATACHA RAMBOVA —
lead-leat-left-lift- LIFE Score: 5 steps
DEAD
-
41. C. M. MICKELBERRY-
PIG-big-bog - HOG
42. BURTON HOLMES-
Score: 3 steps
HADES
-
hares
harts
warts
warth -EARTH
Score: 5 steps
-
Score: 4 steps
43. CLARENCE COOK LITTLE-
FAIL pail - pall - pals - PASS
44. SOPHIE TUCKER –
AND ant art
hot- HOW
-
ort
-
oat
hat
Score: 7 steps
KILL
kile kale
sale
SAVE Score: 4 steps
45. JOSEPH COLLINS-
46. JOHN T. MCCUTCHEON -
ARK
tan
-
are
ere
err
ton -too-ZOO
47. MAURINE WATKINS-
CRIME
―
coops
crome
corps cores
honey- MONEY
48. HARRIS DICKSON
ear
tar
Score: 9 steps
crope
crops
-
cones - hones
Score: 10 steps
FLOODS flouds flouts
glouts
-
grouts grouth-DROUTH
Score: 6 steps
Home town boy solves the flood con-
trol problem not wisely but well.
49. ARTHUR HOPKINS—
GIVE - live life lift- lint
dent - DENY
50. BOOTH TARKINGTON
HEN hem - him
-
aim
lint-lent
Score: 7 steps
ale age- ·ago — ego — EGG
51. MARTIN EGAN-
PAIN
-
-
ail — all
-
pair
parr part
past
east EASE
-
"It is wonderful of you to want to put
me in a book," said Mr. Egan, “but don't
you think it would sell better with
me out of it? I'm in Who's Who and
they tell me they're not doing nearly so
well as they did before." Fair warning,
at least.
Score: 10 steps
Score: 6 steps
52. MARY PICKFORD -
―
✔
POOR boor book rook rock
rick RICH
Score: 6 steps
53. LLEWELLYN JONES -
WHET what that
deal dell — DULL
-
―
teat teal
Score: 7 steps
The witness, on being cross-examined,
admitted that the above crime is not en-
tirely his own; and on being further
cross-examined, named Susan Wilbur as
his accomplice.
54. S. S. VAN DINE-
CLUE-slue-slut-slot-PLOT
And if you don't care for honest Eng-
lish words, Mr. Van Dine worked it out
a trifle more elegantly:
CLUE-slue — sloe - - slot - PLOT
He even tried to put over an obsolete
variant of "clout" and arrived at an ir-
reducible minimum of three, but the
Committee on Rules and Regulations
caught him before he got into print. Mr.
Van Dine's identity, up to the moment
of going to press, is still a hideous secret;
but we have his typographical word for it
that Harry Hansen errs in his statement
that he converses with people by the
light of a single small candle placed on
the mantelpiece. Mr. Van Dine assures
me that he keeps his light under a
bushel.
Score: 4 steps
Score: 4 steps
55. WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON —
KNOCK
knack snack
snare slare blare blase
boast - BOOST
66
—
snark
blast
'Throw away your hammer and get
a horn!"
56. MARGARET ANGLIN ·
GLOW blow blot boot
—
foot
―
Score: 10 steps
fort fore-fare-ware - WANE
Score: 9 steps
57. THOMAS BOYD-
HARD bard bare
-
corn — coin - - coil — BOIL
bore
core
Score: 8 steps
58. HARRY FORD SINCLAIR -
OIL nil - nip nap gap-GAS
Score: 5 steps
59. FRANK CROWNINSHIELD -
"Heavens," said the man when his wife was
struck DUMB,
"Must I live with a dummy in this terrible
dump?
With a mute who but serves my young ardor
to damp?
How can I stomach a life with this dame?
A life that is pointless and boring and tame?
Now:
Who could believe so silly a tale,
A husband who grieves at his wife's lack of
TALK?
60. MABEL REINECKE
MINE
oars-OURS
Score: 6 steps
mane mate mats
-
oats
Score: 6 steps
61. MORRIS GEST-
FLUSH
blush
-
brush
―
bruse
brose - BROKE
And, if you hadn't noticed, Morris
Score: 5 steps
can work it backwards just as quickly.
roll
role
―
62. THE DUNCAN SISTERS-
RIOT
rale
root
rool
-
bale balm CALM
63. WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE-
TOWN
-
tows
-
tots
-
more mire — mite
-
tote
cite - CITY
64. DAVID WARFIELD
Score: 8 steps
tore
Score: 9 steps
MIME mile male malt melt
pelt - PELF
65. AMOS ALONZO STAGG-
Score: 6 steps
HOPE
hore fore
moot moat meat
―
fort
feat-FEAR
foot
Score: 9 steps
STAGG FEARS PURDUE!
66. WALTER PRITCHARD EATON —
MORE - lore lose loss - LESS
- —
67. KIN HUBBARD
RUBE ruse - rise
—
WISE
68. EVA LE GALLIENNE-
―
·
BODY bode bore pore
―
port
-
-
pout - pour sour -SOUL
Score: 4 steps
Score: 3 steps
Score: 8 steps
69. LOUIS ECKSTEIN—
FOOT-boot-bolt - boll - BILL
Score: 4 steps
70. CARL VAN DOREN ·
PLOD pood pook
road-load-LOAF
-
rook
rood
Score: 7 steps
-
71. AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON —
LOST-lose-love-lave-SAVE
Saved, by gosh!
72. CHARLES WINNINGER
SMALL stall
-
stale
Score: 4 steps
stare store
Score: 8 steps
snore snort snout STOUT
73. GRANTLAND RICE-
FISH fist - list — lost - host-hoot –
HOOK
Score: 6 steps
Still, Mrs. Paul Dubonnet might have
done it in four.
74. RUPERT HUGHES -
-
INCH itch etch each lach
lace lare-lard-YARD
99
"This is my first - and I hope my last
attempt,' wrote Mr. Hughes, vindic-
tively. "It ruined an otherwise peace-
ful evening consecrated to honest toil. I
have also ruined a luncheon crowd and
disseminated the disease by starting
other people off on this iniquitous pro-
cedure. Yours hatefully."
75. BEATRICE LILLIE ·
DULL dell fell
-
—
Score: 8 steps
feel
-
keel
KEEN
Score: 5 steps
76. MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM LASSITER
ww
RANK bank bane bale
FILE
—
fale
Score: 5 steps
77. CARL LAEMMLE-
BALD-ball- hall hail — HAIR
"It can't be done," said Mr. Laemmle,
ruefully rubbing his scalp. "No one can
change BALD to HAIR. Thousands of
hopeful people have rubbed thousands
of bottles of hair restorer into thousands
of heads, trying to change bald to hair.
And what happened?” Here Mr.
Laemmle paused to paragraph. "On
the other hand," he continued, “it can
be done. And here it is.”
78. H. I. PHILLIPS—
torts toots-soots
-
shote shore short shoat
TARES-tarts
shots
sheat-WHEAT
You see column conductors do have
their uses.
79. ALICE BRADY-
TRY-wry — way wan - WIN
Score: 4 steps
Score: 11 steps
Score: 4 steps
80. PAUL LELAND HAWORTH—
LEND land
-
-
lard
hard
-
hare
HIRE
Score: 5 steps
81. WILLIAM S. HART—
――
HARD hare-hirelire life-lift-
sift - SOFT
82. ANSON CONGER GOODYEAR—
FLAT
feat
teat
-
tine TIRE
(Not an adv.)
83. CHARLES DILLINGHAM
EASY east
HARD
-
Score: 7 steps
tent tint
Score: 6 steps
cast
cart card
Score: 5 steps
84. JOHN ROACH STRATON —
EVIL eval oval oral orad
―
grad-goad -GOOD
Saved again. But it gets harder every
time.
85. LYNN FONTANNE
DUMB- rumb
oats
IDEA
orts
86. HARRY KEMP
TRAMP
Score: 7 steps
rums
ores
odes
-
rams rats
ides
Score: 10 steps
-
-
crimp
cramp
-
crime
stale
-
chime-shime - shame shale
spell-SWELL
stall - still-spill — spell -
-
87. RUTH HANNA MCCORMICK -
----
Score: 13 steps
HOME-pome-pore-pork
Score: 4 steps
WORK
88. HAROLD LLOYD
SIGH
―
sige
sage gage
gale
―
gall-gail-gril - GRIN
89. JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER
HUNT- bunt bent
spat
―
span
―
spin
-
beat
shin
seat
SHUN
Score: 8 steps
Score: 9 steps
90. MARIO CHAMLEE-
VOICE voile
vaile
-
-
vails mails
sores
malls males sales soles
sorts
spare
STORY
―
soots spots
-
spire shire
-
_
-
spats spars
shore
―
store
Score: 20 steps
91. HOLBROOK BLINN
DOVE dive dire dare hare
hark-HAWK
—
―
92. GENERAL LEIGH R. GIGNILLIAT—
-
Score: 6 steps
CADET
CORPS
cades
cares
93. WILLIAM LYON PHELPS-
ODDS- adds ands ENDS
94. CHARLES C. PYLE-
-
carps
Score: 4 steps
Score: 3 steps
GLORY - glore-glare - blare - blate
blats boats boots
marts
hones
―
―
mares
moots morts
cares
―
canes
cones
Score: 17 steps
honey-MONEY
CHARLES C. PYLE
808 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Word-Change Champions Please Write
95. LUCREZIA BORI —
HUSKY
husks
hunks
hunts
honts
hoots soots - shots
shote
shore
shornshern
sheen sheet
-
sheat cheat cleat CLEAR
-
Score: 17 steps
96. FREDERIC M. THRASHER
ALONE
shove
-
atone
shave
stone
shame
-
stove
shams
crams craws
crows
-
slams clams
―
CROWD
Score: 13 steps
97. DON MARQUIS
WATER
wates
hates
harts tarts torts toots
booty-boozy - BOOZE
hares
boots
Score: 11 steps
"Will this do?" said Mr. Marquis,
modestly. "Of course it was done
in one (at the wedding in Cana, you
know) but I'm not feeling spiritual
today."
98. AL JOLSON —
WHITE write - trite trice - trick-
brick-brack- BLACK
Score: 7 steps
99. ETHEL LEGINSKA
―
LOSE-lone-line-fine- FIND
Score: 4 steps
100. JOHN R. THOMPSON, Jr.
-
-
BEEF beet best lest last
mast mash- HASH
Score: 7 steps
101. ZOË AKINS —
OPAL
oral
load
lord
orad grad goad
lorn
born barn
bark-lark-lack-LUCK
And in thirteen steps! But then
Zoë was born in December.
102. ERIC VON STROHEIM —
Score: 13 steps
GRASP
glare
―
grass glass
clare — chare — share
glase
- SPARE
Score: 8 steps
103. OTTO KAHN
WHIP ship
coap
coat
LASH
slip clip
cost
clap
lost last
Score: 10 steps
104. MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS-
FAIR
malt
hair hail hall
male mate mats
pits fits firs airs ails
-
oily - ogly-UGLY
It's art, Señor,
105. JULIAN MASON-
RUMOR humor
halt
pats
-
oils
Score: 18 steps
but is it pretty?
homes-hames-fames
106. IRVING BERLIN —
humer homer
—
faces-FACTS Score: 8 steps
lores
murid
✔
lords
lurid
—
WORDS
lured
-
lures
mucid
mucic- MUSIC
Score: 9 steps
107. ROSA RAISA
—
SWIM
slim
slam seam seal
—
sell fell-fill-file-five- DIVE
-
108. CALE YOUNG RICE-
SPRY sory
Score: 10 steps
sore lore lare
Score: 7 steps
lade — lady — LAZY
109. EDITH ROCKEFELLER MCCORMICK
SKIRT
tries
shirt shirs—shies - thies
―
trees treed creed creel
ww―
―
kreel kneel - KNEES
— -
―
Score: 12 steps
110. DAVID WARK GRIFFITH—
NORTH worth
wants
wonts
mouth-SOUTH
warth
monts
―
warts
month
Score: 9 steps
111. GLENN FRANK —
THINK
thick
slick- spick-speck - SPEAK
chick
―
click
Score: 7 steps
112. MILT GROSS –
NIZE noze
roze
raze baze
babe- BABY
H-mm. Dunt esk! But if you must
ask, the Committee on Rules and Regu-
lations, finding Milt guilty of gross
infringement of Rule No. 3, has barred
him from all further participation in the
game. And his answer, in case you didn't
Score: 6 steps
infer as much, doesn't count.
113. MEADE MINNIGERODE-
LIKE lire
VARY
-
wire ware
-
wary
Score: 5 steps
114. NORMA TALMADGE-
TEARS sears stars-
stile SMILE
-
—
stare stale
Score: 6 steps
115. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY-
GRAVE
-
―
-
grape
trots
――
grits grots
gripe
-
grips
toots boots
bolts boles bales balls - bulls
belly — jelly — JOLLY
-
Score: 17 steps
-
forms
cooth
Score: 10 steps
bully
—
116. JOHN HELD, Jr.
FLAME flams
couth-YOUTH
forts ports - poots
foams
coots
College papers please copy.
117. LESLIE HOWARD —
BUSY
mats
bush mush
- mash
mass
oats
orts
ores
―
odes
Score: 12 steps
ides idee - IDLE
-
118. GEORGE DILLON
VERSE
-
merse
morse
moose
Score: 5 steps
poose-PROSE
119. VILMA BANKY-
KISS - - kisk — Score: 2 steps
-
KICK
120. W. E. WOODWARD-
-
JEER beer bear beat boat
bout-lout-loud-LAUD
121. JANE ADDAMS-
Score: 8 steps
WRONG wring
blink blank clank
bring
brink
clans
—
clons
-
clots slots
soots
sorts
sores
rose
soles sales
sight - RIGHT
122. JACK DEMPSEY-
RISE
pall - FALL
123. GEORGE S. KAUFMAN
―
HEADS- heals-deals-dells-bells
-
sages siges
sighs
Score: 20 steps
pose pole poll
-
Score: 6 steps
bills hills-halls hails - TAILS
-
-
Score: 9 steps
124. BUSTER KEATON
STAID
plans
-
crows
stand
―
stans
plats - plots - plows
crowd
―
crown
crool drool-DROLL
-
125. ARTHUR SEARS HENNING
shole
torts
WHOLE
soots
sorts
—
―
shote
slans
prows
―
croon
Score: 15 steps
shots
tarts harts
halts halls - halle — HALVE
126. MINNIE MADDERN FISKE
Score: 12 steps
STALE
stare
stars
bears boars - boats boots -
sears
toots
trots - troth-froth - frosh-FRESH Score: 13 steps
127. GEORGE GERSHWIN —
NOISE
noose
loose
louse
rouse · route · - routs
- touts
torts
tarts carts cares cared cured
lured - lurid - lucid- mucid - mucic
-
MUSIC
128. DENNIS KING -
ROGUE
www.m
-
vogue
Score: 19 steps
-
vague value
salts
Score: 12 steps
valve salve salvy salty
sales rales-rules- RULER
-
129. WILLIAM E. BORAH-
START - stare store
sport short
shore
soots sorts sores
sages siges sighs
130. CLARE BRIGGS-
- snort-
snore
shote shots
soles
-
sales
Score: 19 steps
sight-FIGHT
LIFE-like-loke- - JOKE
Score: 3 steps
131. GLORIA SWANSON-
cote
core
LOTS cots
lare — late — lace — lack — JACK
care
Score: 9 steps
It's only fair to say that Miss Swanson
(though it seems to be vogue to refer to
her as the Marquise de la Falaise et de
la Coudray these days) isn't advising
you to plunge on Florida real estate.
132. JOHN DOS PASSOS-
FIGHT-sight — sighs— siges
sages
pages pares parts-ports - poots
plots-plats-plate-place- PEACE
Score: 14 steps
133. EUGENE O'NEILL —
SHARP
stone
-
share
―
shore
store
stane slane - blane - bland
blind - bline
BLUNT
-
-
brine - brune - brunt
134. MACK SENNETT
-
Score: 14 steps
STRIP strop stoop
scoop
scoot shoot short shore chore
chose
—
-
choss-cross-dross-DRESS Score: 13 steps
135. CHARLES HANSON TOWNE—
FORMER-farmer-warmer-warmed
warted
—
-
- marted marked marker
barker barter - batter - LATTER
―
-
136. IRENE CASTLE-
WEEDS reeds
―
-
Score: 11 steps
reads
beads
Score: 6 steps
brads-brass- GRASS
137. TITO SCHIPA-
SMALL stall — stale stare slare
glare glase glose— gloss -GROSS
138. THEODORE-
ORDER older
odder adder
-
added aided sided sides sires
sores sorts soots
spars stars stare
SERVE
Don't be silly.
-
spots
—
spats
- stave seave
There's only one
Score: 9 steps
Score: 19 steps
Theodore,
139. ELINOR PATTERSON —
PAUSE
pures
parse
pareshares
purse
puree
harts- hurts
hurls hurly
140. DEEMS TAYLOR —
hurly - HURRY
WORK-wort wert west REST
Score: 11 steps
Score: 4 steps
141. EDDIE CANTOR
GLIB glim slim
-
slam
soal
soil-boil - bail — mail
male mate MUTE
―
soam
mall
Score: 13 steps
"You can sign my name to this or
anything else," Mr. Cantor paused in
the midst of rehearsals to wire, "ex-
cept a check. Love and kisses."
142. HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE –
HUE - cue- - cut- - cot-
143. JOHN V. A. WEAVER
-
coy - CRY
Score: 5 steps
PLAIN slain - stain-stair
-
stars scars
soars
loads - londs lands
―
soams
starr
loams
―
lande
lance
Score: 17 steps
dance-dancy-FANCY
144. MILTON FOREMAN
POKER
pokes
―
pores
porks
--
pooks-books-broks- BROKE
145. HOWARD THURSTON-
FETTER fatter fatten fasten
faster
―
foster
footer
Score: 7 steps
footed
looted-loosed - LOOSEN
Score: 10 steps
146. BILLY SUNDAY-
HORNS
corns
cores
cares
Score: 7 steps
wares wanes wines WINGS
-
Well, let's hope this is a permanent
save.
147. CONSTANCE TALMADGE-
-
NICE mice-mile-wile- WILD
Score: 4 steps
Why, Constance!
148. RICHARD HENRY LITTLE-
GROUCH - crouch - crotch
crutch
clutch
-
clatch
slatch
snatch
snitch
stitch
stinch
stanch
stance
scance
scarce
scarve
starve
staree
stares
―
stales
stiles SMILES
-
"You said I couldn't
use funny
words," said R. H. L.," and Webster says
'staree' is 'humorous.' Well, it may
have got a laugh out of Noah, but I'm
going to use it anyhow. I've got to."
149. GILDA GRAY -
Score: 21 steps
suaded
SHIVER
QUIVER- quaver - quader
shaded shaved
quaded
shaver
Score: 8 steps
150. RING LARDNER
SOBER
-
sorer
sores
sighs
soles sales
sight
sages siges - signs
TIGHT
Score: 10 steps
151. MARY GARDEN ·
STOUT
―
snout
shore share stare
snort
short
stars
-
sears
seals sells bells balls bales
bates-baths-bathe-lathe - LITHE Score: 18 steps
Miss Garden is probably the first per-
son to use word-jumping as a reducing
exercise.
152. JACKIE COOGAN
-
BABIES - rabies- rubies rubied
rubbed - robbed - bobbed - bombed
-
-
combed
camped
lapses
comber
capped
lasses
camber
lapped
camper
lapsed
losses
posses
MOVIES
Score: 23 steps
posies - ponies -monies
153. GERTRUDE EDERLE—
SINK-silk-sill - sell — seal seam
slam slim - SWIM
-
154. BRANCUSI ·
NULL
Ah, yes.
155. JOHN HALLIDAY-
YELL - hell
JUMP
Score: 8 steps
VOID
Score:
help
hemp
hemp-hump
Score: 5 steps
156. J. N. DING –
COURT
cours
―
sours
soars
stars start shore
-
store
stare
short shout chout-
―
aloud - aloid- AVOID
-
157. ANN PENNINGTON
-
clout cloud
Score: 16 steps
EYES eres
errs
ears
tars
Score: 7 steps
tags-lags - LEGS
158. WILLIAM EMMETT MOORE-
MORNING moaning meaning
leaning — learing — searing
-sparing
Score: 12 steps
smaring-smering-omering—omening-
ovening - EVENING
159. WILL ROGERS-
-
SKIP - slip-slit — slat — seat
heap - hemp — hump - JUMP
—
heat—
Score: 9 steps
160. HOBART C. CHATFIELD-TAYLOR-
—
CLUB clue flue
―
floe
· sled
―
flop
seed
flap slap - slip slid
heed-herd-hord- hore- HOME
―
Score: 15 steps
161. FRANCINE LARRIMORE-
MEEK
BOLD
-
meet beet belt bolt
Score: 5 steps
162. GEORGE ADE-
FABLE cable calle calls
falls
fails fains faint flint
fling
sling - SLANG
Score: 11 steps
163. THEODORE ROOSEVELT –
WILD-wile-tile-tale-TAME
Score: 4 steps
164. DOROTHY ALDIS -
YOUTH
south
—
-
souts
sores sires sides sider
adder - odder - OLDER
sorts
aider
-
Score: 11 steps
165. BABE RUTH —
HITS
RUNS
bits bats
bans
buns
Score: 5 steps
166. PAULINE LORD —
DEFEAT - derate
dearer
REWARD
tearer or rerate
Score:
Good Lord! There goes Rule No. 2!
Nice girl though you are, Pauline, out
you and your answer must go. Whatever
happens, the rules must not be broken.
167. GIORGIO POLACCO
START
stars
peats pents - pints
FINIS
sears
-pines
pears
fines
Score: 9 steps
168. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
TIMID-timed tired tires - tares
―
toats boats brats
tarts torts
prats prate crate
169. JOHN BARRYMORE -
STAGE
spats
stare
――
crave - BRAVE Score: 14 steps
stars
spots soots poots
spars
pools
polls
poles-piles-files - FILMS
Score: 13 steps
170. JOHN S. SUMNER
DIRTY
―
dirts
darts
dorrs doors - boors - boars
scars
-
darrs
scare
―
―
shore
score
soars
short
shoat-sheat-cheat-cleat-CLEAN Score: 18 steps
"It must be apparent to you," wrote
Mr. Sumner, "that what is dirty can-
not be made clean without considerable
effort. As a consequence, the operation
has required eighteen changes and I
don't see how it can be done any more
readily, except by the use of soap and
water."
171. BEN HECHT-
RARE rale tale
teal-TEAR
-
-
tall tell
“If,” said Mr. Hecht, "the book is a
highly moral undertaking and will get
by the censor- "Well, Ben, a bright
young man named Wilde once said
that books are never but you know
the rest. Anyway, with Mr. John S.
Sumner equally incriminated with the
rest of us, it ought to get by the censor.
172. FANNIE HURST-
Score: 6 steps
ATOM
-
atop - stop
-
MASS
slip- -slid said- maid-mail-mall
―
malt mast
173. ALFRED LUNT-
shop-ship
Score: 13 steps
THICK-trick-track-crack-crank-
prank - plank - plant — slant - SCANT Score: 9 steps
·
174. ELSIE JANIS-
CLOWN
――
crown
coops coups
175. W. T. BENDA
crows
crops
Score: 7 steps
cours COURT
REAL-meal
mast-MASK
meat moat most-
176. FRANK A. VANDERLIP
Score: 6 steps
OWE
PAY
―
ore ort oot pot-
―
pat
Score: 6 steps
177. ROBERT BENCHLEY
SILLY sills - - kills kilts kitts
-
kitty-WITTY
Score: 6 steps
178. JIM TULLY
ORDER
older
elder
eider
cider - coder cower
coals cools- coops
CHAOS
Cowes cowls
chops - chaps
Score: 14 steps
179: ROBERT SHERWOOD
BLAND
blank
black
slack
shack shark-
―
SHARP
Score: 6 steps
180. FRANK L. SMITH —
RUSH-rash - wash
wart WAIT
-
wasp warp
Score: 6 steps
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