Word: crypticisms
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...entrance, consisting of a broken-down closed car in which a skeleton sat, warm and dry, at the driver's wheel while in the back seat a semi-nude manikin was planted among flourishing weeds, a heavy shower pouring down on her golden hair. Once past this cryptic collection, visitors entered a long corridor lined with completely nude manikins, masked with bird cages, sprouting electric light bulbs, spotted here and there with snails, pins, bats and magnets. Then each visitor was handed a free flashlight and ushered into the darkness of a big, square room...
Last week after Pole Beck had returned to Warsaw, Danzig's private Führer Forster ended a speech in Berlin with this cryptic remark...
There who have been puzzled over the exact meaning of the expresion "If I were you" find one interpretation of the cryptic words offered in the play of that name by Paul Hervey Fox and Benn W. Levy. These dramatists say that their farce was suggested by an idea in a novel of Thorne Smith's, but their debt would seem greater than they thereby admit. Their end is physic research not yet reduced to scientific terms; their media are sex and the bathroom. Through the resulting fantastic extravaganza Constance Cummings barges with considerable gusto. The situations...
...Kennedy was besieged by the press. Said he: "It sounds just like one of those things." This cryptic comment was no rebuttal. Neither the State Department nor the President showed an inclination to deny the report. Having already finished his job as chairman of the Maritime Commission (TIME, Nov. 22), Joe Kennedy gave a farewell party to his staff at his Maryland mansion, and set off for a fortnight's holiday at Palm Beach in the manner of a man getting ready to tackle...
...drink anything stronger than ginger ale. As for official misconduct on the part of the Governor or bribery on the part of Lobbyist Dickerson, the records proved little. Digging into the jumble of verbiage, the closest thing to actual evidence of corruption that anyone could find was a cryptic statement by a State Senator from Pueblo named Tom Dameron made in the course of a singularly unspecific conversation with Lobbyist Dickerson: "When they hear the utilities are paying $50,000 to kill this one what would they...