Word: crypticisms
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Rasputin's Prophecy. To Nicholas the Last a cryptic prophecy was made by Gregory the Debauchee...
...Ostensibly, so far as financial writers could discover, he had no more subtle purpose than to "observe conditions." U. S. steelmen had been alarmed by the vigorous recovery of the German mills, which were threatening severe competition with U. S. industry. It was, therefore, no great surprise when the cryptic announcement of the export combine closely followed Mr. Farrell's return. The combine appeared as a typical Farrellian stroke in the campaign to develop the foreign market...
...long rollcall, then is destined to be assumed but once today, and that only as a formality, the mere assurance of triumph already won. The cryptic "I do not choose" was altered just in time to "I will not", and the vague possibilities of a dark-horse third term are checked, once for all. And is it not better so? All the squirming and writhing of the politicians could mean but one thing; that, though they knew the voters' choice, they did not wish to obey it; that if holes were not already there, through which the machine men might...
...foxes seen" said the cryptic message received from Capt. Wilkins by Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society. It meant there was no land between Point Barrow and Spitzbergen and put an end to the fond dream of a vast continent in the "blind spot" of the Arctic...
...organized money force is small. It astonished nobody, because 7,000 tickers are now hypnotizing greedy eyes in 40 states, leaving scarcely a middle-sized town from Maine to California where citizens may not actually see their savings bank withdrawals dance past their giddy eyes in strange, cryptic abbreviations three minutes after passing their checks to the broker...