Word: cipheritis
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Chief discomfort for Byron was Claire Clairmont, an "assiduous concubine," who could not understand that "he had succumbed through boredom." Once Byron showed her some of his sister's letters. Claire told Mary and Shelley that they were written in cipher. Shelley saw nothing unusual in that, thought the ciphers "most likely were used to convey news of his [Byron's] illegitimate children." While Claire went off to England to have one by him, Byron went off to Italy...
...Embassy on Thursday, the 8th of June, 1939. The British Ambassador's wife rose at 6 a. m. all last week to do the tough job of picking 1,300 names (900 in Washington, 400 throughout the land) to receive invitations thus worded under the seal & cipher of George Rex and Elizabeth. Her great name-choosing task ended, Lady Lindsay consented at last to receive the press and explain how her guests must behave...
...those sentimental Irishmen who love leprechauns and hobs" -is the country Carroll will go on writing about. The U. S., where at present he is visiting, he would not live in either, but its theatre is the one in the world that excites him. Scotland, though dramatically a cipher, is the place to live -because "its people leave you alone." England, full of "those gentle barbarians so much more dangerous than bloody barbarians," he despises...
...Manhattan last week Intertype Corp., makers of typesetting machines, revealed an unprecedented demand by newspaper composing rooms for extra supplies of cipher matrices. One Manhattan daily lately put in a hurry call for more ciphers, found Intertype completely out of stock. Eager to help out a customer, the factory put out of commission some of its own typesetting machines, extracted the ciphers, rushed them to the rescue...
...CIPHER OF DEATH-F. L. Gregory -Harper...