Word: cipheritis
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...first follo, at the death of Hamlet, the prince had the words O, o, o, o on the tip of his tongue. This did not appear after the first follo. (One might be permitted a comparison between the dark powers of Denmark and the Cambridge gendarmerie). The cipher, as any Hebrew on the street will tell you, means "book." Naturally, we deduce that O, o, o, o refers us to the fourth book in the Bible, which is the Book of Numbers. There we find the solution to our problem in the following neology...
...organization, purpose, and activities it resembled them. Thus at Harvard, the fortnightly meetings (until 1819) with their sociability and their discussions; the complex forms and ceremonies of initiation, taken over from the William and Mary chapter; the secrecy in which the meetings and laws were clothed, the use of cipher in official communications; all these are typical of the fraternities of the time. The ritual of initiation was pompous: in referring to meetings, it stated "everything transacted within this room is transacted Sub rosa, and detested is he that discloses it"; an oath had to be taken to "keep, hold...
...fortune on the stock exchange, then turned his attention to publishing. But his real hobby was women. He was married to a woman "whom he kept concealed on ocean liners," with whom he enjoyed sporadic interludes but to whom he was in no sense devoted. She was a cipher who only occasionally complicated his amorous arithmetic. Jo's steady mistress was Alice, who used to write poetry before he made her happy, and still did when he treated her, as he was fond of doing, like dirt. Jo was an introspective egoist and not much fun for those around...
...always has been. At exactly high tide, six graceful white boats were launched at Southwark Bridge: two for the King, two for the Vintners, two for the Dyers. Most impressive were the King's rowboats. From their sterns hung large white standards bearing the crown and royal cipher. At their prows were small red and white "swan flags." Two Swanherds in scarlet coats rowed each boat. At the tiller of each sat a Swanmaster. whose duty it was to steer and watch for swans. Vintners' and Dyers' skiffs carried the banners of their guilds at the stern...
Just as General Gomez came before Venezuela's oil boom so he came after General Cipriano Castro. General Castro's name is the key that unlocks the cipher of President Gomez's enigmatic Power...