SPELLING BEE
A RADIO BROADCAST
(From "The Post's" Representative.) ' NEW YORK, ,10th April.
Both Houses of Congress and the re-' prescntatives of the Press at. Washington engaged in a spelling bee before a radio audienco with results that would not do credit .to a schoolboy of eleven.
Tho "championship" was awarded to
;. journalist who, however, could not spell "referable," which ho spelled " rcferrible " and insisted lie was right. Tho champion of the House of Kepresentatives came to grief on the word "kimono, "■ and the Senate champion was "frozen out" when he perpetrated '' indignous."
The Associate Press correspondent got the "c" and "i'1 mixed in "sacrilegious." A New York journalist presented "achievment." The Senator responsible for tho law providing for five years gaol and 10,000 dollars fine for taking a drink was responsible .for "carbureteur.'" '
Tho words which led to casualties among the lawmakers of the United States and their chroniclers were: — Lineage, olfactory, pernicious, proselyte, oleo-margarine, sarcophagus, obsolete, nihilism, prehensile, and soubriquet (spelled "sobriquet" in these parts).
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 10
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167SPELLING BEE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 10
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