Word: ciphers
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...taste in wine than of his taste in literature?which he takes for granted?the Thames wanderings of Younger Brother Morley are as rich and heady as though the water were turned into brown old wine with the Wife of Bath's passing. An apparently genuine "treasure cipher," its decipherment and what ensued give to the tale an almost spirituous tang...
Before a Congressional Commission investigating land grants to the Northern Pacific R. R., one D. F. McGowan, attorney for the Forestry Service, declared that a comma in legal writing may mean as much money as a cipher on the left side of a decimal point...
...that as it may, the Turkish Assistant Director of Police in Constantinople received a cipher message from the Grand National Assembly at An gora, new capital of Turkey, instructing him to deport the Patriarch. At the early hour of 6:30 a.m., the police official called upon His All Holiness, apprised him of his imminent de parture, courteously saw him through passport technicalities and safely upon an ordinary train which forthwith chugged him to Salonika...
...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...