Word: crypticisms
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...best talent in the University. The portraits of Professor Kittredge, Professor Baker, H. T. Parker, Walter Hampden and other interpreters of the drama, the realistic studies of life in the gymnasium, and the seductive portrait of a pre-Raphaelite pet called Gladys cannot be impaired in value by the cryptic remarks placed under them, remarks which are preferable to the virtual spirit of the club rather than to any sense of humour...
...might also wish to differ with the writer's conclusions upon the mechanics of recording information gathered in college. Any system beyond the barest fundamentals is highly individual; some men retain more of a lecture through scrawling cryptic notes in margins than do others by recording it word for word. The essential information regarding these matters of routine might be given in one short talk...
...Their heart is all right, and they mean well, but their judgment is not very good" was Fire Chief Albert Tait's cryptic comment when asked his opinion of the undergraduates' activities...
...religious impetus of the last two thousand years." He has expounded the religion of Mahatma Gandhi, and has made it clear, logical, plausible to western minds. He has made the man, and his influence, and the mysterious, sensitive fire of his spirit lives before us. At his touch the cryptic teaching of the new Messiah of India has unfolded...
Though French, wielded by such masters of the interposed Gallicism as W. J. Locke, Booth Tarkington, Leonard Merrick, is the most insidious invader of the English novel, the other tongues are not backward in their occasional donation of a cryptic phrase. Villains are at almost any moment likely to break out with a brisk donner-wetter. What would a volume by Fannie Hurst be thought of without an occasional lapse into some good expressive Yiddish? Haunch, Paunch and Jowl is plentifully spattered with the colorfully Hebraic...