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The Fireside Chat

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A few of the words

FIRESIDE
Roosevelt chose the word deliberately, he wanted Americans to feel he was speaking as a neighbor, not a distant official, gathered by the same fire.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CONSOLE
The floor-standing console radio was the centerpiece of millions of American parlors in the 1930s, often the most expensive piece of furniture in the room.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
AERIAL
Long-wire aerials strung from rooftops and trees pulled in AM signals across hundreds of miles, letting a single Washington broadcast reach farms as remote as any city.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
EVENING
Roosevelt scheduled his chats in the evening so that working families, still at the supper table or settled in the parlor, could gather around the radio together.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The Fireside Chat: a free large-print word search

Fireside chat word search, free and large-print. Pull up a chair, turn the dial, and let that calm, steady voice fill the room.

About The Fireside Chat

Between 1933 and 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a series of evening radio addresses that millions of Americans gathered to hear in their own living rooms. The broadcasts arrived through console sets and cathedral radios, their warm amber dials glowing in the dark, carrying a president's voice directly into the family circle for the very first time. Banks, drought, war, whatever the crisis, those thirty-odd talks asked the country to lean in close, and the country did.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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