Word: crypticism
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...quiet Kensington (London), where they settled down fairly permanently in 1914 when Belgium engaged the Hoover genius to keep 10,000,000 warhemmed people fed for four years. Intellectual, she helped her husband in his post-War diversion of translating Georg Bauer's De Re Metallica from cryptic 16th Century Latin into quaint but useful English...
...common shares. The "misunderstanding" in Philadelphia revealed that the Fisher brothers had taken up more than 100,000 common shares and a smaller block of preferred. This holding clearly entitled them to representaton on the directorate though it did not constitute control. President Vauclain chose to be cryptic about the apparent fight "misunderstanding" and apparent fight for Baldwin control. "I know of no fight," he said. "I couldn't tell you anything about the matter. . . . The only thing in which I am really interested is the sale of locomotives." His friends could well picture how Mr. Vauclain...
...Cryptic Sirs: ...Finally I wish that you would explain the meaning of the rather cryptic ANNOUNCEMENT which now seems to appear on your letter page each week. Does this mean that you have moved your editorial department away from Cleveland? I surely hope not.... Louise Barker Mrs. B. Barker) Cleveland, Ohio...
...Eight O'Clock Chapel" is a cryptic title for a volume of comments on teachers, students, buildings, standards, and customs in New England institutions during the eighties. The famous teachers as well as the famous buildings, moreover, are accorded the honour of illustrations, which are quite prolific in the book. The buildings qualify because of age, the men because their names, even to present day ears, ring very familar, though most are gone. The number of these familiar names is a partial justification of the book itself, a reminders that, although then as always a small puddle, New England served...
...public see red, something more personal than oil is needed. Luck has it that Henderson's daughter, Lois (Brenda Bond) introduces to her potent father one Charles Parkman, boy in search of a job, also son of a onetime president of the U. S. Casually remarks cryptic-tongued Joe Cobb (Osgood Perkins), "brains" of the Martin Henderson office: "If they ever shot President Parkman's son, it wouldn't take long to get the Army into Mexico." Villainous Henderson assigns young Parkman to a "suicide" station in the oily path of his privately endowed revolution...