Word: ciphers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...