From Our Abecedarian Blog . . .

Today — June 23, 2026
	Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink) We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is referenced in Drawing Spirit: the Role of Images and Design In the Magical Practice of Late Antiquity, edited by Jay Johnston & Iain Gardner, 2022. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Go Out in a Blaze of Glory . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Daily Mirror, 1916. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New by Walter Crane, 1905. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Wee Wisdom, 1944. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Puzzles and Games (permalink) From The Children's Newspaper, 1928. Answers: LONE, LANE, LAME, LAMP, LUMP.  Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Puzzles and Games . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Legends of the Middle Ages by H. A. Guerber, 1896. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) It's been said that "music inspires strong passions — both for and against" (Gil Reavill).  "Brooklyn music store blown up by bomb for third time in a year."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Kansas State University's 1985 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "The Horn of Ulphus."  From Chatterbox, 1895. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "Secrets of Egypt's vanished past.  Will the ancients who are sleeping beneath her sands return again to life?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1931 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Film Daily, 1944. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Staring at the Sun (permalink) "Can't swing a beam?"  From 73 Magazine, 1968. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Staring at the Sun . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Baylor University's 1918 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad, 1923. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Armour Institute of Technology's 1914 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Canadian Readers Book III, 1881. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Our Pets by Nida & Nida, 1928. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .