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Word: cryptically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the political situation eased by the deflation of Dr. Pfrimer, well-groomed, white-chinned Johann Schober, Vienna's paunchy Police President, carefully inspected his green-coated and his khaki-coated constabulary, took stock of the machine guns in his station houses. Then he issued a cryptic but reassuring message in the Wiener Sonnundmontagszeitung (Vienna Sundayandmondaynewspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Pfrimer Deflated | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...quadroon, Alexandre Dumas Sr. Her poems, edited by Swinburne, were published, praised. She became the toast of Charles Dickens, Napoleon III and many another celebrity, staid and profligate. Yet for the Montparnasse tombstone, bestowed on her remains by Baron de Rothschild, the epitaph she wrote in advance was mournful, cryptic: Thou Knowest. She died in 1868, aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dolorous Dolores | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Governor of the Federal Reserve Board is Roy Archibald Young, 47, solid, capable, popular. When the announcement was made his words were few and cryptic: ". . . [We] have considered how the resources of the Federal Reserve System might best be conserved and made available to meet autumn requirements. The problem has presented difficulties because of certain peculiar conditions." The increased rate was not adopted however for the Reserve Banks of Chicago or Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bear Friday | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Gerard Case. A Mme. Gerard was murdered, with only two clues?a laundry mark, a cryptic message. Sleuth Wensley deduced the murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland Yardsman | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Among the more uncouth of the year's dramas was this tale of a girl's grim progress from an Ohio village to the bed of a Cleveland beer-runner. Out of a welter of cheap wheezes and smudgy local color comes the 'legger's cryptic decision to marry the girl. Thus made respectable, they return to Ohio, to find the coffin of the girl's tortured mother in the dim sitting room. Cullen Landis played the 'legger without retrieving the general exhibition of bad theatre and worse taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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