Word: crypticisms
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...returned his questionnaire blank except for the cryptic remark that he was ashamed to be associated with a class which distributed such "stuff" remains the hero of the piece. Questionnaires are harmless articles, fun to fill out. They only become dangerous instruments when taken too seriously...
Last week a diplomatic oracle implicitly trusted by all newshawks, was interviewed on the subject of the van Zeeland trip. From him came but one cryptic sentence...
...slightly for 1937 contracts but the first real boost did not come until a fortnight ago when International announced a new price of $50 for 1938. A score of U. S. and Canadian newsprint makers promptly followed suit, while London's Lord Rothermere, a papermaking publisher, dispatched this cryptic cable to the Toronto Financial Post...
...next largest category is the press box. This will held 260 men if the sides are made to bulge a little. Two hundred and fifty men, and men only, because press tickets bear the cryptic message "No Ladies Allowed." Although the official little everyone in the boy in "Reporter" they cannot be classified quite to uniformly...
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...