Tom Swifties celebrate 100 years ...

"The word-game comes from the title character in a series of boys adventure books written between 1910 and 1941 by Edward L Stratemeyer and others under the pseudonym Victor Appleton (Two later series of Tom Swift Jr books followed the tradition). Stratemeyer's writing was characterized by heavy use of adverbs, a style more recently employed by J. K. Rowling in her Harry Potter series." More...