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...Beta Kappa! Initials of the country's hierarchy of intelligence. How many of the distinguished gentlemen, each of whom had been in the top berth of his class at graduation, could have told you the precise title hidden beneath these cryptic characters? "Public Board of Knowledge?" "Profoundity Bringeth Kudos?" No, of course it would be something in Greek, which any one of the gentlemen could have rattled off glibly, had he wished. Only he wouldn't have wished. It is a secret...
House of Bondage. Then Brigham clapped eyes on The Book of Mormon, a surprising document "translated" by one Joseph Smith Jr. from cryptic gold plates evangelically supplied out of a New York hillside called Cumorah. Therein it was set forth that two tribes had shipped direct to America from the Tower of Babel. The presence of Red Indians in America "proved" this. Joseph Smith Jr. had been commissioned the Lord's special and prophetic latter-day representative to re-establish Mor- monism...
...book with all those excellent portraits you use on covers, with a cryptic biographical sketch in TIME's style? You have the finest charcoal portraitists in America in Gordon Stevenson and S. J. Woolf. You have already many biographical sketches of notable subjects. Such a book is necessary to every library. Get the idea? Send me, C. O. D., the first one. MYNATT...
Though phonetics is the basis of simplified spelling, the Board has gone by no means as far as one of its oldest members, Melvil Dewey of Lake Placid, N. Y., believes the movement could be carried. Mr. Dewey employs phonetics with painstaking, sometimes cryptic thoroughness. At the Lake Placid Club, of which he is President, guests are familiar with such items as the following on his bill of fare: "krem of whet," "kofe," "fryd egz," "frut," "kak," "yc krem." In a letter apropos of articles on simple spelling, Mr. Dewey once wrote: "My sugjestion wud be a first articl...
...Marshal therefore suggested that a treaty of security for France should be negotiated with British Powers (see INTERNATIONAL). Lord Crewe, British Ambassador to France, blocked further discussion with the cryptic remark that the Marshal's report did not constitute what was wanted. It was subsequently agreed by the assembled Ambassadors that M. Foch should prepare another report setting forth categorically the extent of Germany's violations of the disarmament provisions of the Treaty and make specific recommendations to oblige Germany to fulfill her technical defaultations...