Word: ciphers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compress cables and telegrams a considerable code was developed through the years. For himself he selected the cipher word 'Andes,' modestly taking the name of the second highest altitude on the earth's surface. He commonly went by the code name in office conversation. . . . Colonel George B. M. Harvey was 'Sawpit'; James Gordon Bennett came over the cable as 'Gaiter' and William R. Hearst as 'Gush.' For William J. Bryan, two code designations were used: 'Guilder' and 'Maxilla,' the latter possibly a delicate reference to jaw. Pomeroy...
...families. She herself says, however, that "my daughters married off themselves." No doubt at all that she married off her son, Carol, to Princess Marie of Yugo-Slavia. But she is a real power, abroad and at home, so much so that King Ferdinand has been described as a cipher, which is partly true. She is credited with forcing Rumania into the War on the winning side, she often concludes much State business over the heads of her husband's Ministers which makes her most unpopular with them. She holds sway in a Court which is probably unmatched...
With the price of bread running into billions a loaf the German people have had to get used to counting in thousands of billions. This, according to some German physicians, brought on a new nervous disease known as "zero stroke," or "cipher stroke," which may, however, be classed with neuritis as cipheritis...
William Johnston, whose new mystery novel. "The Waddington Cipher." (Doubleday, Page & Co.), is the first story that has ever been serialized over the radio, holds a unique newspaper position as suggestion editor or official idea man to the New York World. His work is to anticipate public interest--to guess what will interest newspaper readers, not only today, but tomorrow and next week. This position with no detail duties and freedom to scout all over the world for suggestions that will add interest to any department of the paper, has shaped itself out of the variety of new ideas that...
...TREASURE OF THE BUCOLEON- Arthur D. Howden-Smith-Brentano ($2.00). A cipher hidden in Elizabethan verse-secret stairs in an old English manor hall-a fabulous treasure secreted bv Byzantine emperors in the very belly of Constantinople-a gang of international cutthroats who are constantly sandbagging the legitimate treasure-seekers-gypsy brigands versus Turkish assassins - a spitfire gypsy lass equally ready with kiss or knife- these are some of the ingredients of as rattlingly energetic a yarn of adventure as any in some time...