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...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...
While it cut short the career of one of the most cryptic of modern public figures the death of Colonel T. E. Lawrence also removed the mystery from a book that has become a source of enormous legend and speculation. The first draft of Seven Pillars of Wisdom was written in 1919, and a large part of the manuscript was lost in Reading Station while the author was changing trains. A second text, largely done in three months, was checked and corrected throughout 1920, then destroyed by Lawrence. A third text, 330,000 words long, was finished in 1922. From...