Word: crypticism
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...Secretary of Commerce, apparently, sanctioned wage cuts to keep hard-pressed factories open. Alarmed at this interpretation, President Hoover spent a whole Cabinet meeting discussing wages. Then to the Press was sent out this cryptic statement which the President refused to elaborate...
Brother Arnaldo Mussolini, editor of the family newsorgan Il Popolo d'ltalia of Milan, had Italians guessing last week at what he meant by this cryptic statement...
...creditor. The gold standard, which was adopted with a view to obtaining stability of price, has failed in its main function. In the meantime people wrangle about fiscal remedies and similar devices of secondary importance, neglecting the essential question of stability in standard of value." Most startling, provokingly cryptic was Lord d'Abernon's conclusion: "The situation could be remedied within a month by joint action of the principal gold-using countries through the taking of necessary steps by the central banks." This amounted to saying that if things do not look up within 30 days five...
...This cryptic statement of the Tactical Department adequately summarizes the annual encampment of the Corps of Cadets. To the newly recognized yearling summer camp is the fulfillment of all the hopes and dreams of a long plebe year just past; to the first classman it means chevrons and the privileges which only a first classman may enjoy; to everybody summer camp is a period of welcome relief and relaxation after a long and exacting academic grind. West Point life during the pleasant summer months more than lives up to the hopes entertained...
...Lincoln (United Artists). This is not a drama about Lincoln nor a portrait of him but a biographical sketch made of rapid, isolated sequences from his life. The approach is conventional, almost school-bookishly historical. In the producers' effort, often successful, to make a recognizable human being from the cryptic figure of Lincolnian anecdote, the audience is never allowed to forget that this human being was also the Savior of the Union. It is not the approach an artist would take; in taking it Director David Wark (Birth of a Nation) Griffith was thinking first of the boxoffice. And since...