Word: cryptically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year readers with a taste for unusual prose and a willingness to search for cryptic significance in faction found a book that suited them perfectly in a first novel called The Asiatics. It was the work of a 78-year-old Yale professor, and it described the wanderings of an anonymous narrator from Persia to China, with careful and realistic descriptions of the extraordinary and unreal adventures he encountered on the way. These adventures ranged from a prison escape to casual encounters with the passionate overnight beauties of the Orient. Much of the strangeness of the book...
...Bravo to TIME for its cryptic, neatly-turned observation, "acting with her teeth...
...enthusiastically they took their places at the shining black tables. Then, as if an assembly of priests and priestesses had come to some pagan ritual consecrated to Mammon, each took out a handful of pennies. scattered them before him on the table, scooped them in, made a cryptic notation, and sent them rolling and bouncing once again. Time and again the outlandish ceremony was repeated and the once silent hall echoed with the sounds of tiny thinking cymbals...
Turning from this hysterical and somewhat cryptic analysis to the photographs in the volume, readers may get an impression of an India far more serene than Katherine Mayo's words suggest. Pictures include queer ones of a holy man sitting comfortably on nails, a shot of the spiderweb suspension bridge, made of cane and rattan, that stretches 800 ft. across the Dihang River in Assam. Another holy man, dressed only in covering of thorns and spikes, is pictured twanging away cheerfully on a native banjo, while a holy woman of Benares is shown practicing devotion by staring into...
Interest in this apparatus was aroused by cryptic articles appearing in several newspapers, which declared that Marconi and his 'micro-wave' machine will soon be on the African frontier, ready to frustrate dusky aviators as soon as they dare leave the ground, and force their bare feet back to mother earth...